Preface
I designed this book to suit the needs of the scientists and the physicians in the field
of nanomedicine and nuclear medicine. Nanomedicine is about application of
nanomaterials for medical purposes and includes all the endeavors of in vivo and
in vitro application for clinical use, and is mostly done by scientists and engineers
and nuclear medicine is practiced everyday in the clinic by many nuclear medicine
physicians in collaboration with radiopharmaceutical scientists and nuclear medicine physicists. Radionanomedicine is combined efforts of these people to solve the
unsolved problems in the current practice of medicine, which ranges from oncology, infection/inflammation, heart and brain diseases, and others.
Scientists in nanomedicine and nuclear medicine would like very much to
understand how to coordinate the lessons/know-hows to implement the current
understanding of nanomaterials and their behavior in the human body to be useful
for therapeutic/ theranostic purposes. I, as a nuclear medicine physician, recognize
that the inherent principles in nuclear medicine, tracer technology, shall solve the
issues with which nanomedicine are confronted now. Clinical application of
radionanomedicines, i.e., radiolabeled nanopharmaceuticals or radionanodrugs, will
enable imaging simultaneously with therapy in everyday routines and we will open
these entirely new opportunities by looking into the disciplines about both fields of
science/medicine in more depth now.
I envisioned that simple endeavor to synthesize the knowledge which are being
produced and established everyday in nanomedicine and nuclear medicine will help
myself, my colleagues in nuclear medicine, radiochemistry, and nanomedicine to be
enlightened with eureka in scientific comprehension. After reading the manuscript
for editing/proofreading, I experienced this joyous enlightenment in this book and
am now very much eager to share this feeling with the future readers of this book.
I am going to explain to my fellow scientists and physicians how to achieve this
goal using this book.
This book was weaved with two crossing lines in horizontals and verticals, the
former of which is the synthesis of nuclear and nanomedicines and the latter of
which are ranged from the materials used as exogenous inorganic or organic or
endogenous (of exosomes), how to modify the surface with radiolabeling
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I designed this book to suit the needs of the scientists and the physicians in the field
of nanomedicine and nuclear medicine. Nanomedicine is about application of
nanomaterials for medical purposes and includes all the endeavors of in vivo and
in vitro application for clinical use, and is mostly done by scientists and engineers
and nuclear medicine is practiced everyday in the clinic by many nuclear medicine
physicians in collaboration with radiopharmaceutical scientists and nuclear medicine physicists. Radionanomedicine is combined efforts of these people to solve the
unsolved problems in the current practice of medicine, which ranges from oncology, infection/inflammation, heart and brain diseases, and others.
Scientists in nanomedicine and nuclear medicine would like very much to
understand how to coordinate the lessons/know-hows to implement the current
understanding of nanomaterials and their behavior in the human body to be useful
for therapeutic/ theranostic purposes. I, as a nuclear medicine physician, recognize
that the inherent principles in nuclear medicine, tracer technology, shall solve the
issues with which nanomedicine are confronted now. Clinical application of
radionanomedicines, i.e., radiolabeled nanopharmaceuticals or radionanodrugs, will
enable imaging simultaneously with therapy in everyday routines and we will open
these entirely new opportunities by looking into the disciplines about both fields of
science/medicine in more depth now.
I envisioned that simple endeavor to synthesize the knowledge which are being
produced and established everyday in nanomedicine and nuclear medicine will help
myself, my colleagues in nuclear medicine, radiochemistry, and nanomedicine to be
enlightened with eureka in scientific comprehension. After reading the manuscript
for editing/proofreading, I experienced this joyous enlightenment in this book and
am now very much eager to share this feeling with the future readers of this book.
I am going to explain to my fellow scientists and physicians how to achieve this
goal using this book.
This book was weaved with two crossing lines in horizontals and verticals, the
former of which is the synthesis of nuclear and nanomedicines and the latter of
which are ranged from the materials used as exogenous inorganic or organic or
endogenous (of exosomes), how to modify the surface with radiolabeling
ix