抄録
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a rapidly expanding clinical modality worldwide thanks to the availability of compact medical cyclotrons and automated chemistry for the production of radiopharmaceuticals. There is an armamentarium of fluorine-18 (18F) tracers that can be used for PET studies in the fields of oncology and neurosciences. However, most of the 18F-tracers other than 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) are in less than optimum human use and there is considerable scope to bring potentially useful 18F-tracers to clinical investigation stage.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) convened a consultants' group meeting to review the current status of 18F-based radiotracers and to suggest means for accelerating their use for diagnostic applications. The consultants reviewed the developments including the synthetic approaches for the preparation of 18F-tracers for oncology and neurosciences. A selection of three groups of 18F-tracers that are useful either in oncology or in neurosciences was done based on well-defined criteria such as application, lack of toxicity, availability of precursors and ease of synthesis. Based on the recommendations of the consultants' group meeting, IAEA started a coordinated research project on "Development of 18F radiopharmaceuticals (beyond [18F]FDG) for use in oncology and neurosciences" in which 14 countries are participating in a 3-year collaborative program. The outcomes of the coordinated research project are expected to catalyze the wider application of several more 18F-radiopharmaceuticals beyond FDG for diagnostic applications in oncology and neurosciences.
本文言語 | English |
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ページ(範囲) | 727-740 |
ページ数 | 14 |
ジャーナル | Nuclear Medicine and Biology |
巻 | 37 |
号 | 7 |
DOI | |
出版ステータス | Published - 2010 10月 |
外部発表 | はい |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- 分子医療
- 放射線学、核医学およびイメージング
- 癌研究