Meet the editors

Dr. Naqvi is a radioanalytical chemist and is working as an associate professor of analytical chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Advance separation techniques, nuclear analytical techniques and radiopharmaceutical analysis are the main courses that he is teaching to graduate and post-graduate students. In the research area, he is focusing on the development of organic- and

biomolecule-based radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosis and therapy of infectious and cancerous diseases. Under the supervision of Dr. Naqvi, three students have completed their Ph.D. degrees and 41 students have completed their MS degrees. He has completed three research projects and is currently working on 2 projects entitled "Radiolabeling of fluoroquinolone derivatives for the diagnosis of deep-seated bacterial infections" and "Radiolabeled minigastrin peptides for diagnosis and therapy of NETs". He has published about 100 research articles in international reputed journals and 7 book chapters. Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology (PINSTECH) Islamabad, Punjab Institute of Nuclear Medicine (PINM), Faisalabad and Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology (INOR) Abbottabad are the main collaborating institutes.

M Babar Imran is a nuclear medicine physician with a special interest in radionuclide theranostics. He is a visiting professor and a faculty member of PIEAS University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan. Dr. Imran has published around 100 research articles, reports, and book chapters. He is the chief editor of the European Journal of Medical Case Reports (http:// www.ejmcr.com/) and the Pakistan Journal of Nuclear Medicine

(http://pjnmed.com/section/eboard). Dr. Imran has an honor of national and internal awards. He is the only serving nuclear physician at present in this country who has been awarded "Tamgha e Imtiaz" by the President of Pakistan (2006) for his research and academic contribution in the field of nuclear medicine.

Contents

**Section 1**

Radiopharmaceuticals

Imaging - A Lot to Consider

Parathyroid Scintigraphy

**Section 2**

*and Anand Kumar*

*by Dimple Sethi Chopra*

**Preface XI**

Medical Isotopes Used in SPECT and PET Imaging **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 45**

Nuclear Medicine Mechanism Imaging and Therapy **69**

**Chapter 4 71**

**Chapter 5 87**

**Chapter 6 117**

Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)

Gallium-68: Radiolabeling of Radiopharmaceuticals for PET

*by Albena Dimitrova Botushanova and Nikolay Petrov Botushanov*

*by Chanchal Deep Kaur, Koushlesh Kumar Mishra, Anil Sahu, Rajnikant Panik, Pankaj Kashyap, Saraswati Prasad Mishra* 

*by Sana Komal, Sana Nadeem, Zahra Faheem, Arouma Raza, Komal Sarwer, Hijab Umer, Samina Roohi and Syed Ali Raza Naqvi*

Localization Mechanisms of Radiopharmaceuticals

Radiolabelled Nanoparticles for Brain Targeting

Theranostics: New Era in Nuclear Medicine and Radiopharmaceuticals

*by Michael Meisenheimer, Yury Saenko and Elisabeth Eppard*

*by Syed Ali Raza Naqvi and Muhammad Babar Imran*
