Synthesis and radiopharmacology of O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine for tumor imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 205-212

  Wester, Hans J ^a   Herz, Michael ^a   Weber, Wolfgang ^a   Heiss, Peter ^a   Senekowitsch Schmidtke, Reingard ^a   Schwaiger, Markus ^a   Stöcklin, Gerhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

18F; 18F fluoroethyltyrosine; Amino acids; Brain tumor; FET; PET

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; TYROSINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TYROSINE;

EID: 0032921707     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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