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Nowadays, there are interests as well as active investigations devoted to the study and application of radiolabeled molecules able to selectively target and irradiate tumoral cells during nuclear medicine procedures. With this kind of pharmaceuticals, spatial activity distribution with extremely non-uniform characteristics may be assessed in patients. Actually, this feature constitutes precisely the main advantage in view of maximizing the discrimination between affected and healthy tissue. The mentioned situation constitutes the main motivation for the present work. In this sense, the chapter is focused on nuclear medicine dosimetry pointing out the main features about how to implement Monte Carlo (MC) approaches to this aim.