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Synthesis and preliminary biological evaluation of O-2((2-[ 18F]fluoroethyl)methylamino)ethyltyrosine ([18F]FEMAET) as a potential cationic amino acid PET tracer for tumor imaging
Chiotellis, Aristeidis,Mueller, Adrienne,Weyermann, Karin,Leutwiler, Dominique S.,Schibli, Roger,Ametamey, Simon M.,Kraemer, Stefanie D.,Mu, Linjing
, p. 1947 - 1959 (2014/08/05)
Amino acid transport is an attractive target for oncologic imaging. Despite a high demand of cancer cells for cationic amino acids, their potential as PET probes remains unexplored. Arginine, in particular, is involved in a number of biosynthetic pathways
