Radionanomedicine Combined Nuclear and Nanomedicine

This book describes radionanomedicine as an integrated medicine using exogenous and endogenous This book describes radionanomedicine as an integrated approach that uses exogenous and endogenous nanomaterials for in vivo and human applications. It comprehensively explains radionanomedicine comprising nuclear and nanomedicine, demonstrating that it is more than radionanodrugs and that radionanomedicine also takes advantage of nuclear medicine using trace technology, in which miniscule amounts of materials and tracer kinetic elucidate in vivo biodistribution.

Introduction of Radionanomedicine.- Exogenous Radionanomedicine.- Endogenous Radionanomedicine.- Surface Modification and Radiolabeling.- Targeted Delivery with Click Chemistry.- In-vivo Biodistribution Using PET and SPECT.- Factors and Results Affecting Biodistribution.- Immune Responses to Nanomaterials.- Molecular Imaging.- Theranostic Utility.

Dong Soo Lee, M.D.Ph.D. is a nuclear medicine physician and nanomedicine expert who is a professor of nuclear medicine in Seoul National University (SNU) and SNU hospital since 1990. He is also a professor and chairman of the department of molecular medicine and biopharmaceutical sciences of SNU. He has implemented the concept of ‘Radionanomedicine’ which takes the advantage of tracer principle of nuclear medicine using trace amount of materials and enabling tracer kinetic studies  for nanomaterial use in vivo. He is currently the director of BioMAX/N-Bio Institute of SNU to practice and promote bio convergence approaches of innovative developments of fundamental sciences/engineering to clinical application. He is past-president of Korean Society for Nanomedicine and past-president of Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine as well as past-president of Korean Society of Human Brain Mapping. As a nuclear medicine physician, he specialized in nuclear cardiology and neurology as well a