Volume Two
List of Common Acronyms
Chapter 1. Radiotheranostics: Challenges Today
by Dale L. Bailey
Chapter 2. Radiopharmaceutical Preparations and Radiolabeling Strategies
by Ehab Al-Momani, Eman Awad, and James Lamb
Chapter 3. New Insights Into the Radiation Biology of Radiotheranostics
by Yaser Gholami and Dale L. Bailey
Chapter 4. Radiation Embryology: Human and Animal Studies
by Cari Borrás
Chapter 5. Alpha- and Beta-particle Therapy and Dosimetry
by Robert F. Hobbs
Chapter 6. Auger Emitters
by Pablo Minguez Gabiña and John Roeske
Chapter 7. Positrons: Their Potential Role in Radionuclide Therapy
by Takanori Hioki and Dale L. Bailey
Chapter 8. Biokinetic Modelling For Radionuclide Dosimetry
by Augusto Giussani and Alexandra Kamp
Chapter 9. Standardized Tumor and Organ Dosimetry
by Michael G. Stabin
Chapter 10. Image-based Dosimetry Procedures
by Michael Ljungberg
Chapter 11. Combining External Beam Radiotherapy and Radionuclide Therapy
by David Sánchez Artuñedo, Marta Cremonesi, and Michael G. Stabin
Chapter 12. Uncertainties in Dose Calculations
by Bryan P. Bednarz
Chapter 13. Design, Shielding, and Operational Radiation Safety Aspects of the Radiotheranostic Facility
by Michael A. Sheetz
Chapter 14. Management of Deceased Patients Under Treatment (Radioactive Cadavers)
by P. Andrew Karam
Chapter 15. Radiopharmaceutical Regulatory Requirements
by Cari Borrás
Chapter 16. The Economics of Theranostics
by Rodney J. Hicks
Chapter 17. Artificial intelligence in Radiotheranostics
by Ana Maria Marques da Silva
Biography
Cari (Caridad) Borrás is a certified medical physicist in Washington, DC, USA, where she works as an international consultant and has an adjunct faculty position at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She obtained a Doctor of Science (Physics) degree from the University of Barcelona, Spain, having done a thesis research project on the dosimetry and embryological effects of Astatine- 211 at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, USA, as a Fulbright scholar. The American Board of Radiology certified her in Radiological Physics and the American Board of Medical Physics in Medical Health Physics. She has worked as a radiological physicist in Barcelona, Spain; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco, CA; Recife, Brazil; and Washington, DC, where for 15 years she was responsible for the Radiological Health Program of the Pan American / World Health Organization. She has lectured in more than 300 seminars/courses/congresses, many organized by her; authored/contributed around 100 articles and six book chapters; and edited/coedited three books. She is a Fellow of ACR, AAPM, IOMP, HPS, and IUPESM, and has received awards/recognitions from SEFM, AAPM, ALFIM, IOMP, IUPESM, ACCE, ACR, and ABR.
Michael G. Stabin is a Certified Health Physicist, President of the Radiation Dose Assessment Resource, Inc., living in Kennewick, WA, USA, where he worked for NV5 – Technical Engineering & Consulting Solutions and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions. He was an Associate Professor in the Radiology and Radiological Sciences Department at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, TN, and a Scientist at the Radiation Internal Dose Information Center of Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. He received a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering (Health Physics emphasis) from the University of Tennessee, is a member of the HPS and the SNMMI, and is also a Fulbright scholar. He has over 225 publications in the open literature, most on internal dosimetry for nuclear medicine applications, including complete textbooks on health physics and internal dose assessment.
