Pharmaceutical Education and Practice

Radiopharmaceuticals

Radiopharmaceuticals are unique medicinal formulations containing radioisotopes which are used in major clinical areas for diagnosis or therapy, many radiopharmaceutical preparations contain radioisotopes with very short half-lives and such preparations therefore have very short shelf-lives and they require an expiry date and time to be indicated. Radiopharmaceutical preparation is a medicinal product in a ready-to-use form suitable for human use that contains a radionuclide. The radionuclide is integral to the medicinal application of the preparation, making it appropriate for one or more diagnostic or therapeutic applications.