Limits of [18F]-FLT PET as a biomarker of proliferation in oncology.

Non-invasive imaging biomarkers of cellular proliferation hold great promise for quantifying response to personalized medicine in oncology. An emerging approach to assess tumor proliferation utilizes the positron emission tomography (PET) tracer 3'-deoxy-3'[(18)F]-fluorothymidine, [(18)F]-...

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Main Authors: Eliot T McKinley, Gregory D Ayers, R Adam Smith, Samir A Saleh, Ping Zhao, Mary Kay Washington, Robert J Coffey, H Charles Manning
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3598948?pdf=render