Advances in the automated synthesis of 6-[18F]Fluoro-L-DOPA

• Main Authors: Ângela C. B. Neves (Author), Ivanna Hrynchak (Author), Inês Fonseca (Author), Vítor H. P. Alves (Author), Mariette M. Pereira (Author), Amílcar Falcão (Author), Antero J. Abrunhosa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract The neurotracer 6-[18F] FDOPA has been, for many years, a powerful tool in PET imaging of neuropsychiatric diseases, movement disorders and brain malignancies. More recently, it also demonstrated good results in the diagnosis of other malignancies such as neuroendocrine tumours, pheochromoc...