1. Radiofármacos de galio 68.
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Morín Zorrilla, José and Cruz Arencibia, Jorge
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RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS , *GALLIUM , *POSITRON emission tomography , *RADIOISOTOPES , *CYCLOTRONS , *NEUROLOGY , *CARDIOVASCULAR system - Abstract
The positron emission tomography is a technique of medical image of great sensibility and high resolution that requires short-lived positron emitting radionuclides. The most commonly used are 18F and 11C. The main difficulty of these radionuclides is the necessity to install a cyclotron in the site of use or not very far from it. Therefore convenient radionuclides have been researches, among them 68Ga. The availability of this radionuclide from long-lived 68Ge/68Ga generators, which can been used for along time far from the cyclotron location, and the rich coordination chemistry of Ga3+ have allowed to incorporate to the medical practice some radiopharmaceuticals as well as the research of a variety of stables complexes of Ga3+ coupled to biomolecules for diagnostic imaging of cancer and cardiovascular and neurological diseases. The present work is aimed at examining the potentialities of the 68Ga-radiopharmacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012