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