This pictorial view is an initiative
of the Nuclear Medicine Europe Innovation Working Group
“Nuclear Medicine is based on the use of radioactivity for healthcare applications in diagnosis and therapy. Through the use of biomolecules that are labelled with radioisotopes, numerous metabolic, molecular and signalling pathways can be visualized and quantified. This information is used for diagnosis and personalized treatment planning. Moreover, the same tracer principle can be used to target disease in vivo for internal radiation therapy. The use of the same biomolecule labelled with different radioisotopes for diagnosis and therapy is called theranostics and was first proposed by Paul Ehrlich a century ago.”