Abstract:
The reaction conditions, including the amount of raw material, reaction temperature, evaporation time, pressure and flow rate of carrier gas for
11C-CH
3I were investigated. The corrected yield of
11CH
3I under optimized conditions (0.3 mL LiAlH
4, 0.5 mL 57% HI,0.28 kPa gas pressure, 27 mL/min carrier gas flow rate, 180 ℃ reaction temperature and 12 min evaporation time) was 62.2%±3.4% and the radiochemical purity was more than 95%.
11C-choline PET/CT imaging in 2 patients was studied and compared with
18F-FDG PET/CT imaging. High uptake with
11C-choline and low uptake with
18F-FDG in tumor were observed.