WANG Mingwei1, 2 YIN Duanzhi WANG Yongxian LI Junling ZHAN Lan ZHOU Wei 1. Radiochemical synthesis of O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine as PET imaging agent for tumor diagnosis[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2005, (9): 654-658.
WANG Mingwei1, 2 YIN Duanzhi WANG Yongxian LI Junling ZHAN Lan ZHOU Wei 1. Radiochemical synthesis of O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine as PET imaging agent for tumor diagnosis[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2005, (9): 654-658.DOI:
Radiochemical synthesis of O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine as PET imaging agent for tumor diagnosis
Radiolabelled amino acids have been the interesting field of radiopharmaceuticals for several years
of which O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine is very promising as PET imaging agent for tumor diagnosis. [18F]FET was synthesized via a two-step reaction consisting of [18F]fluorination of 1
2-bis(tosyloxy)ethane for preparing the alkylating agent 2-[18F]fluoroethyltosylate and [18F]fluoroethylation of L-tyrosine for obtaining the objective [18F]FET. The synthesis was typically finished in less than 50 min with overall radiochemical yields of 20%—30% (without decay correction)and radiochemical purity more than 98%.