Minimally Invasive Local Treatments for Bone and Pulmonary Metastases

Table 2

Characteristics of bone-seeking radiopharmaceuticals.

Radionuclide	Physical half-life	Energy max (MeV)	Decay	Mean range in tissue (mm)	Carrier
Phosphorous-32 (^32P)	14.3 days	1.71	𝛽	7.9	Orthophosphate
Strontium-89 (^89P)	50.5 days	1.46	𝛽	6.7	Chloride
Samarium-153 (^153Sm)	46.3 hours	0.84	𝛽 and 𝛾	3.4	EDTMP
Radium-223 (^223Ra)	11.4 days	5.78	𝛼 and 𝛾	<0.1	Chloride