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Intrinsically copper-64-labeled organic nanoparticles as radiotracers
Tracy W Liu1, Thomas D MacDonald, Jiyun Shi
1Ontario Cancer Institute, Campbell Family Institute for Cancer Research, UHN, Canada.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|November 17, 2012
Abstract:
PET friendly: labels for PET imaging are incorporated into completely organic porphysomes by using a fast (30 min), one-pot, high-yielding (>95 %) procedure to produce highly stable (>48 h) radiolabeled nanoparticles that show the highest specific activity ever reported for a (64) Cu-labeled nanoparticle. These (64) Cu-porphysomes can be accurately and noninvasively tracked in vivo.

