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Diagnosis of Brain Tumors Using Amino Acid Transport PET Imaging with (18)F-fluciclovine: A Comparative Study with L-methyl-(11)C-methionine PET Imaging

OBJECTIVE(S): (18)F-fluciclovine (trans-1-amino-3-[(18)F] fluorocyclobutanecarboxylic acid, [FACBC]) is an artificial amino acid radiotracer used for positron emission tomography (PET) studies, which is metabolically stable in vivo and has a long half-life. It has already been shown that FACBC-PET i...

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Autores principales: Tsuyuguchi, Naohiro, Terakawa, Yuzo, Uda, Takehiro, Nakajo, Kosuke, Kanemura, Yonehiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine & Biology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5482923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28660218
http://dx.doi.org/10.22038/aojnmb.2017.8843