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[18F]FE@SUPPY and [18F]FE@SUPPY:2--metabolic considerations

Daniela Haeusler1, Lukas Nics, Leonhard-Key Mien

  • 1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.

Nuclear Medicine and Biology
|May 8, 2010
PubMed
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[(18)F]FE@SUPPY demonstrated greater metabolic stability in rats compared to [(18)F]FE@SUPPY:2. This finding suggests [(18)F]FE@SUPPY is a more suitable positron emission tomography tracer for adenosine A(3) receptor imaging in clinical investigations.

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