| Nuclear Engineering focuses on solving several of the | | | | surrounding tissue. Previous crude calculation methods |
| world's most important grand-challenge problems. The | | | | often forced doctors to cause damage to substantial |
| last three years have seen much happen for Nuclear | | | | amounts of healthy tissue, or to miss completely killing |
| Engineering. | | | | tumours. |
| Nuclear Engineering is all about devising how to use | | | | The use of radiopharmaceuticals is expected to |
| radioactive materials in manufacturing, agriculture, | | | | increase rapidly as new diagnostic methods are |
| medicine, power generation, and many other ways, | | | | developed. Nuclear medicine is being considered for |
| perhaps the most important being in medicine, where | | | | use in infection imaging, neurology and other fields. At |
| over 1/3 of all procedures in the United States use | | | | this time, most therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals involve |
| nuclear techniques. | | | | the treatment of cancer. On-going research is being |
| In nuclear medicine, small amounts of radioactive | | | | conducted to expand nuclear medicines to treat other |
| materials called radiopharmaceuticals are used for | | | | diseases as well. |
| diagnosis and therapy. Nuclear processes are used to | | | | Gravatom is a leading provider of solutions and |
| provide images inside the human body, to detect and | | | | equipment for radiopharmaceutical processing in UK. |
| measure biochemical processes, and to provide | | | | They specify, design, manufacture, install and validate |
| therapy. A major event in 2000 was the FDA | | | | process equipment and integrated containment |
| approval of the first Monte-Carlo code for use by | | | | technologies. |
| doctors to design radiation therapy for cancer. Based | | | | They offer a disciplined approach to the application of |
| on nuclear reactor design methods, this new tool now | | | | current good practice to comply with GMP, |
| allows doctors to take detailed magnetic resonance | | | | radiopharmaceutical, safety, health and environmental |
| imaging data (another nuclear technique) and predict | | | | regulations. |
| with great accuracy how to deposit precisely enough | | | | Their expertise derives from more than 30 years’ |
| radiation to kill cancer tumours without damaging | | | | experience of containment and handling solutions. |