Theranostic Radiopharmaceuticals: A Universal Challenging Educational Paradigm in Nuclear Medicine

Abstract

The field of nuclear medicine traces its origin to the accidental discovery and naming of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel and Marie Curie in 1896 and 1905. In March 1936, Hamilton and Stone in California used “radiosodium,” the first artificially produced radioisotope, to treat 3 patients with