“Nuclear Medicine Europe (NMEU) represents the major players in the nuclear medicine sector. It informs public authorities about the challenges the industry is facing and proposes ways to address them.
Nuclear medicine: a vital technology What is nuclear medicine? It may sound like a recent technology, but the science is far from new. It has been a vital imaging and therapeutic technique for almost a century. Today, it is more precise and sophisticated than ever thanks to a range of modern technologies from fields such as medical physics, radiochemistry and informatics. How does it work? Nuclear medicine uses radiopharmaceuticals to capture physiological or pathological processes. A radiopharmaceutical is a molecule that takes usually part in a physiological process (e.g. metabolism) or attracted specifically by cellular or other targets (e.g. oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer lesions). ”