Nuclear Medicine Products:

1-Cold Kits

✅ Cold Kits are chemicals used in nuclear medicine to diagnose different parts of the body and tissues.

✅ There are more than 30 radiopharmaceuticals based on technetium-99m that are used to diagnose organs such as the brain, thyroid, liver, gallbladder, kidneys, blood, and others.

✅ Cold Kits are also used in medical examinations as a radiation detector, with medical equipment used to monitor the results.

✅ Cold Kits the most sought-after nuclear medicine products by hospitals and clinics.

 

2- Lutetium-177 (Lu-177):

✅ Has a half life time about 6.7 days

✅ Used in nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat diseases:

1. Cancer treatment: especially prostate, lung, and pituitary cancer.

2. Internal radiotherapy: destroying cancer cells from the inside.

3. Targeted therapy: precisely targets cancer cells.

4. Oncology: destroying cancerous tumors.

3-Actinium-225 (Ac-225)

✅ Has half life time about 10 days.

✅ With high radiation energy used in nuclear medicine to treat diseases, especially:

1. Cancer treatment (prostate, breast, lung, liver).

2. Treatment of neurological tumors.

3. Treatment of lymphomas.

4. Treatment of blood diseases.

 

3-Gallium-68 generator (Ga-68)

✅ Has a short half-life of about 68 minutes.

✅ It is mainly used in nuclear medicine and healthcare, especially in the diagnosis of tumors and cancers.

1. Prostate cancer: detecting spread.

2. Pancreatic cancer: diagnosis and monitoring of treatment..

Imaging tumors using PET (positron emission tomography)

 

4- Yttrium-90 (Y-90)

✅ Has a half life time about 64.2 hrs

✅ Used in nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat diseases.

✅ Main uses:

1. Cancer treatment: especially cancers of the liver, prostate, breast, lung and pituitary gland

2-Y-90 is used to treat patients with colon metastases in the liver when surgical options are not possible

5- Technetium generator (Tc-99m)

✅ One of the essential tools in Nuclear medicine.

✅ Most commonly used in medical imaging of people.

✅ The importance of the Tc-99m technical generator:

Provide a short-lived radioactive isotope source.

✅ It is produced from a generator containing molybdenum-99 (Mo-99)

6-Iodine - 131 (I-131)

✅ Radioactive iodine has a half-life of about 8 days.

✅ Has many medical and scientific uses including:

1. Cancer treatment: especially thyroid and pituitary cancer.

2. Cancer diagnosis: It is used in medical imaging to determine the spread of cancer.

3. Treating thyroid disorders: such as hyper- or hypothyroidism.