Radiotracers in drug development
By: Graham Lappin and Simon Temple.
Contributors: Temple, Simon.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780849333477
Subjects: Drug development -- Methodology.; Radioactive tracers.; Radioactive Tracers.; Drug Industry -- methods.; Pharmacokinetics.; Scintillation Counting -- methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Radiotracers and drug registration; title: Radioactivity and radiotracers; title: The study of drug metabolism using radiotracers; title: DNA binding, isotope dilution and other uses of radiotracers; title: Quantitative whole body autoradiography (QWBA); title: Scintillation counting; title: Statistics in scintillation counting; title: Instrumentation for detection of radioactivity; title: Sample preparation for scintillation counting; title: Biomedical accelerator mass spectroscopy; title: Positron emission tomography; title: Gamma scintigraphy and 3D-SPECT.