Abstract:
Positron emission tomography (PET) is an important diagnosis and imaging tool for nuclear medicine, and playing an increasing part in fundamental medicine, new drug research and clinical effect assessment, etc.
18F is the most common radionuclide for PET imaging, which is produced in a cyclotron.
68Ga is a PET imaging radionuclide of increasing concern, and is gained from long-lived
68Ge/
68Ga generator systems. The use of
68Ga does not demandan on-site cyclotron, which provide a convenient method for researchers. With the development of coordination chemistry, a variety of bifunctional chelators have been developed for
68Ga labeling, which allow the convenient coupling tomany chemical structures and biomolecules. Kitformulated preparation is another advantage for
68Ga radiopharmaceuticals. This review presents the developments of the
68Ga based radiopharmaceuticals.