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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nucl Med Biol. 2008 Nov;35(8):825–837. doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2008.08.004

Table 2.

In vivo biodistribution of [18F](+)4 in control Sprague-Dawley rats (%ID/g, avg ± SD). For comparison, the biodistribution data of [18F](+)2 in rats reported previously [28] were added.

Biodistribution of [18F](+)4 in rats
2min n=3 30min n=3 60min n=7 120min n=7 240min n=4

Blood 0.27 ± 0.05 0.15 ± 0.01 0.10 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.00 0.02 ± 0.00
Heart 0.48 ± 0.09 0.11 ± 0.02 0.07 ± 0.01 0.02 ± 0.00 0.01 ± 0.00
Muscle 1.00 ± 0.01 0.61 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.01 0.02 ± 0.00 0.01 ± 0.00
Lung 0.79 ± 0.04 0.48 ± 0.15 0.14 ± 0.04 0.05 ± 0.01 0.03 ± 0.00
Kidney 4.60 ± 1.10 3.59 ± 0.80 2.21 ± 0.53 1.58 ± 0.17 2.01 ± 0.30
Pancreas 1.64 ± 0.48 1.96 ± 0.19 2.68 ± 0.28 1.33 ± 0.30 0.81 ± 0.16
Spleen 1.36 ± 0.48 0.26 ± 0.05 0.16 ± 0.04 0.08 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.01
Liver 3.28 ± 0.49 1.02 ± 0.12 0.67 ± 0.10 0.54 ± 0.06 0.54 ± 0.11
Skin 0.21 ± 0.05 0.14 ± 0.01 0.09 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.01 0.02 ± 0.01
Brain 0.95 ± 0.30 0.30 ± 0.01 0.32 ± 0.06 0.24 ± 0.03 0.28 ± 0.04
Bone 0.29 ± 0.04 n/a n/a 0.23 ± 0.03 0.22 ± 0.04 0.27 ± 0.05
Biodistribution of [18F](+)2 in rats (%ID/g, avg ± SD) reported previously [28]
2min 30min 60min 120min

Blood 0.26 ± 0.03 0.23 ± 0.06 0.18 ± 0.02 0.12 ± 0.03
Heart 0.71 ± 0.07 0.41 ± 0.03 0.30 ± 0.10 0.22 ± 0.01
Muscle 0.14 ± 0.03 0.17 ± 0.02 0.13 ± 0.01 0.10 ± 0.01
Lung 0.94 ± 0.04 0.69 ± 0.03 0.54 ± 0.14 0.35 ± 0.03
Kidney 2.10 ± 0.17 1.06 ± 0.06 0.84 ± 0.09 0.55 ± 0.06
Pancreas 2.51 ± 0.22 5.50 ± 0.97 4.98 ± 0.24 2.76 ± 0.61
Spleen 1.46 ± 0.15 1.03 ± 0.18 0.83 ± 0.18 0.48 ± 0.04
Liver 3.53 ± 0.56 2.82 ± 0.24 2.47 ± 0.30 1.47 ± 0.13
Skin 0.23 ± 0.05 0.28 ± 0.01 0.23 ± 0.04 0.16 ± 0.02
Brain 0.71 ± 0.05 0.62 ± 0.08 0.42 ± 0.04 0.35 ± 0.02