Current Aspects of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry

• Main Author: Peter Brust (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Chemistry; Neuroimaging; Structure-based radiotracer design; Radiotracer metabolism; Radiolabelling; Fluorine-18 chemistry; Radionuclide generators; Target validation; Ligand-based radiotracer design; Tumor imaging; Carbon-11 chemistry
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) are in vivo molecular imaging techniques which are widely used in nuclear medicine for the diagnosis and treatment follow-up of many major diseases. They use biomolecules as probes, which are labeled with radio...