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C Caraco1, L Aloj, W C Eckelman
1Positron Emission Tomography Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Abstract:
Previous studies report that deferoxamine (DFO) binds metallic ions such as Fe3+, In3+ and Ga3+ with very high affinity. This property of DFO has been utilized to label DFO-coupled compounds with radiometals such as 67Ga and 111In. We have studied the effect of low DFO concentrations and of different incubation conditions on the stability of the 67Ga-DFO complex. In our experience high (> 5 microM) DFO concentration appears to be critical in obtaining high radiochemical purity of such complexes.
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