Diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals are radioactive agents which are administered to a patient in order to act as a diagnostic tracer which enables the technician to differentiate normal from abnormal anatomic structures.
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DRAXIS Diagnostic Radiopharmaceutical Approved in First European Country
Displays details about the approval of Draxis radiopharmaceutical in Netherlands for lung imaging.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/DRAXIS+Diagnostic+Radiopharmaceutical+Approved+in+First+European+...-a0128706517
Contains an overview of nuclear medicine from 2001 to 2020, including diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, which are used to image organ metabolism.
http://jnm.snmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/39/3/20N.pdf
Nuclear Medicine: Radioisotopes
This article about radioisotopes contains a section which details the role of diagnostic pharmaceuticals, how and why they work, and details about generator systems.
http://www.radiochemistry.org/nuclearmedicine/radioisotopes/01_isotopes.shtml
