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Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010 Mar;3(2):211–222. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.109.860593

Table 1. Currently used Radiotracers of Metabolism.

Radionuclide	Half-life	Compound^a	Present use
SPECT
¹²³I	13.3 hr	IPPA	Fatty acid metabolism
		BMIPP	Fatty acid metabolism
PET
¹⁵O	2.04 min	¹⁵O₂	Oxygen consumption
¹¹C	20.4 min	Acetate	Oxygen consumption
		Palmitate	Fatty acid metabolism
		Glucose	Glucose metabolism
		Lactate	Lactate metabolism
¹⁸F	110 min	Deoxyglucose	Glucose metabolism
		FTHA	Fatty acid metabolism
		FTP	Fatty acid metabolism
		FCPHA	Fatty acid metabolism

See text for names of compounds