Table 1. Characteristics of 18F-RGD-K5 and 68Ga-RGD.
Radio-tracers | Radionuclide | Molecule |
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18F-RGD-K5 | Fluorine-18 ½ half-life = 109.8 min Positron yield = 96.86% Mean energy Eβ = 0.250 MeV Maximum energy Eβmax = 0.634 MeV |
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68Ga-RGD | Gallium-68 ½ half-life = 68 min Positron yield = 89.14% Mean energy Eβ = 0.829 MeV Maximum energy Eβmax = 1.899 MeV |
The chemical structure in green corresponds to the cyclic tripeptide RGD Arginin-Glycin-Aspartic acid (c(RGDfK), the orange structure corresponds to a sugar, the purple structure to the triazole, the blue structure to the NODAGA chelate and in red the radionuclide.