PURPOSE The present review article aims to provide an overview of the available radionuclides for palliative treatment of bone metastases beyond (89)Sr and (153)Sm. In addition, it aims to review and summarize the clinical outcomes associated with the palliative treatment of bone metastases using different radiopharmaceuticals. MATERIALS AND METHODS A literature search was conducted on Scienc...

Rhenium-186-1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1-diphosphonate (186Re-HEDP) has been used for the palliation of metastatic bone pain. Delayed blood clearance and high gastric uptake of radioactivity have been observed upon injection, due to the instability of (186)Re-HEDP in vivo. In this study, on the basis of the concept of bifunctional radiopharmaceuticals, we designed a stable 186Re-mercaptoacetylglycyl...

A Riechert Mundinger stereotaxic device was modified to enable artifact-free computed tomographic (CT) scanning with the stereotaxic frame attached to the patient's head. A localization system was developed allowing determination of the XYZ coordinates of the target point directly from the CT cut. Angiography was performed intraoperatively with the stereotaxic frame attached. Coronal and sagitt...

The interaction of rhenium oxide with an alumina support is examined over a wide range of conditions (rhenium oxide loading, calcination temperature and environment) using laser Raman spectroscopy (LRS) and X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES). These structural probes reveal that supported rhenium oxide on alumina is present as an atomically dispersed surface [ Re04] ads species coor...

Introduction Supported rhenium oxide catalysts have a wide range of catalytic applications, such as olefin metathesis, hydrodesulfurization, hydrogenation and NH3-SCR. Hence, the practical importance of rhenium oxide catalysts has resulted in extensive investigation of the surface structure of supported rhenium oxide catalysts. The molecular structure of supported rhenium oxides has been mainly...

A cruciform-shaped oligo(phenylenevinylene) (OPV) with a phosphorescent rhenium(I) chromophore incorporated at the centre and grafted triphenylamines around the periphery was designed as a new organic photovoltaic material, in which the chelation of rhenium(I) to the cruciform successfully constructs a three-dimensional intramolecular charge transfer system and extends the exciton lifetime; as ...