Toward reliable synthesis of radiotracers for positron emission tomography in PDMS microfluidic chips: Study and optimization of the [18F] fluoride drying process

Nanotechnology 2010: Electronics, Devices, Fabrication, MEMS, Fluidics and Computational - Technical Proceedings of the 2010 NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Expo, NSTI-Nanotech 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 472-475

  Tseng, W Y ^a   Cho, J S ^a   Ma, X ^a   Kunihiro, A ^a   Chatziioannou, A ^a   Van Dam, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerenkov radiation; Fluorine 18; Microfluidics; Positron Emission Tomography (PET); Radiochemical synthesis

Indexed keywords

CERENKOV RADIATION; DEVICE FAILURES; DRYING PROCESS; EVAPORATIVE DRYING; FLUORINE-18; HIGH PRECISION; LOW LOSS; MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM; MICROFLUIDIC CHIP; MICROLITERS; MULTI-STEP; NANOLITERS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; POSITRON EMISSION; RADIOCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS; RELIABLE OPERATION; SINGLE CHIPS;

CERENKOV COUNTERS; DRYING; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; ELECTRONS; EVAPORATION; FABRICATION; FLUIDIC DEVICES; FLUORINE; MICROCHANNELS; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; POSITRONS; RADIATION; RADIOACTIVITY; SILICONES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78049433077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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