Carbon-11 and Fluorine-18 Labeled Amino Acid Tracers for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Tumors
Tumor cells have an increased nutritional demand for amino acids (AAs) to satisfy their rapid proliferation. Positron-emitting nuclide labeled AAs are interesting probes and are of great importance for imaging tumors using positron emission tomography (PET). Carbon-11 and fluorine-18 labeled AAs inc...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Chemistry |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fchem.2017.00124/full |