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Nuclear Medicine ; Precision Medicine

PURPOSE: This editorial deals with the basic structures of medical papers in general and emphasizes the ethics of authors and reviewers. A majority of the content originated from educational material issued at the 2002 Annual Meeting for the Korean Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Current issues from the publication of the Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine were also included.
Ethics ; Nuclear Medicine ; Publications

There is considerable interest in 188Re due to its favorable properties as a therapeutic radionuclide. 188Re and 99mTc act as a matched pair because of their similar chemical properties, and therefore methods of labeling with 99mTc can be applied to the labeling with 188Re. With appropriately chosen agents as carriers of 188Re, the labeling can be readily carried out using 188ReO4- in the presence of a reducing agent. 188Re radio pharmaceuticals based on 99mTc complexes have been synthesized and are currently being studied for clinical use. Some of them are shown to be suitable for therapeutic use and promising for radiotherapy in nuclear medicine.
Nuclear Medicine ; Radiopharmaceuticals ; Radiotherapy

Radionuclide therapy has been continued for treatment of incurable diseases for past decades. Relevant evaluation of absorbed dose in radionuclide therapy is important to predict treatment output and essential for making treatment planning to prevent unexpected radiation toxicity. Many scientists in the field related with nuclear medicine have made effort to evolve concept and technique for internal radiation dosimetry. In this review, basic concept of internal radiation dosimetry is described and recent progress in method for dosimetry is introduced.
Nuclear Medicine ; Radiometry*

According to the situation of the nuclear medicine in the region and world, and Vietnam, the strategy of development of Vietnam was introduced including the situation and task of the health sector, the features and difficulties of establishment and development of the country’s nuclear medicine as well as solution for strategy of the development of the nuclear medicine.
Nuclear Medicine ; Growth & development

The application of the artificial radioactive isotopes in the medicine (diagnosis, treatment, prevention and biomedical research) has been developing rapidly. The Vietnam nuclear medical profession contributed to improve the quality of the diagnosis, treatment, functional test and imaging tests of thyroid, kidney, liver, blood and hematopoietic organ, disgestive absorption. Up to 2005, the nuclear medicine will develop the immuno radioactive image, use of radioactive marked specific antibodies to obtain the special tumor image and treatment of cancer by the radioactive suitable agents bound antibodies
Nuclear Medicine ; Radioisotopes

We set out to analyse the result of 142 hyperthyroidsm patients, treated with radioiodine from 1987 to 1997, and still on follow-up by the Depar. of Nuclear medicine, Lam Dong General hospital. Among 142 patients studied, there are 123 females, 19 males. Their ages ranged from 19 to 65 years old (mean 35+/-9.8).
Hyperthyroidism ; Nuclear Medicine

700 patients with the hyperthyroidism were examined according to the physical and disease condition. The classfication of age and gender, the evaluation of the clinical, paraclinical features, the thyroid function before and after the radioiodine therapy, the determination of the usual dosage as well as the complication of therapy were implemented.
Hyperthyroidism ; Nuclear Medicine

Several thousands of patients with thyroid diseases were diagnosed and treated using the nuclear medicine techniques: Thyroid Radioiodine Uptake, thyroid related hormones determined by RIA or IRMA, thyroid gland scintigraphy. The effect on such test of the populations used iodine-salt was evaluated by authors, also in 330 patients with thyrotoxicosis were treated by I-131 during from 1998-2000 year. The results indicated that this is one of the best therapeutic methods which should be selected. During the last 20 years, very good achievements of nuclear medicine techniques used in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases were collected at nuclear medicine dep. of Bach Mai hospital, but at the present time the imaging equipment Rectilinear Scanner MB 8100 is old and out of date. It must be changed by single photon emission computer tomography system or gamma camera.
Nuclear Medicine ; Thyroid Diseases

Cardiological nuclear medicine was divided into two parts: diagnosis in vivo and diagnosis in vitro. Diagnosis in vivo need to put radioactive agents into patients, through dynamic and metabolic processes of radioactive agents and by using outside-body devices to gain parameters and images which reflect the physical and functional condition of heart, heart valves and blood supply of coronary arteries. Diagnosis in vitro does not put radioactive agents into patients. It used radioimmunoassays and immunoradiometricassays. Using patients’ blood samples, they quantify some agents with low concentration in blood. These are uninvasive tests with high accuracy that useful in diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of various diseases.
Heart Diseases, Nuclear Medicine