Compounds Labeled with Other Positron Emitters

Compounds Labeled with Other Positron Emitters 

Oligonucleotides can be labeled with organic positron-emitting radioisotopes, such and Br. They are also labeled with metal positron-emitting radio- 

The tritium work at Surrey has been generously funded over many years by EPSRC (previously SERC and, originally, SRC), the EU, NATO, and the chemical industry. Shui-Yu Lu s research is supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Mental Health). 

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The Ionisation of Carbon Acids, Academic Press, London, 1973. 

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Compounds Labeled with Other Positron Emitters... 

Compounds labeled with 20-min half-lived carbon-11 were first intro- duced into biomedical research over 40 years ago (1-6). Before the discovery of carbon-14, compounds such as propionic acid (3) and lactic acid (2) labeled with carbon-11 were synthesized and utilized in biochemical research. After the introduction of carbon-14 as a biomedical tracer, interest in the shorter-lived carbon-11 decreased, and only in the past decade has there been renewed interest in labeling compounds with carbon-11 as well as with other short-lived positron-emitters such as oxygen-15, nitrogen-13, and fluorine-18. 

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