Radiopharmaceuticals

• Captain Briner


  The Father of Nuclear Pharmacy.
• Technetium 99m-Phytate

  Liver imaging and potency studies
• Technetium 99m-Heptagluconate

  Kidney and renal function
• Technetium 99m-HIDA (Hepatobiliary Iminodiacetic acid)

  Hepatobiliary studies
• Technetium 99m-Etidronate

  Bone imaging
• Technetium 99m-Na pertechnetate

  Brain, thyroid, GI scanning
• I-131 Human Serum Albumin

  Blood plasma volume/cardiac output determination
• Sodium Iodide I125


  Thyroid function
• Sodium Iodohippurate I131


  Renal function
• Selenomethionine Se75


  Diagnosis in pancreatic tumors
• Sodium phosphate


  Ocular tumor localization, for polycythemia vera
• Sodium chromate Cr51 injection


  Blood volume determination
• Cyanocobalamine Co57 injection


  Pernicious anemia
• Chlormerodrin Hg197


  Scintillation scanning of kidneys or brain