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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nucl Med Biol. 2019 Nov 9;80-81:13–23. doi: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2019.11.004

Table 2:

Instability of [18F]FTHA at different radioactivity concentration and growth of unknown side product over time.

SN Fatty acid Radioactivity Concentration (GBq/mL or mCi/mL) Time of Post synthesis analysis Peak I (Unknown) Peak II (Product)
Retention Time (min) Relative Percentage Retention Time Relative Percentage
1 [18F]FTHA High conc. (2.37 GBq/mL or 64.0 mCi/mL at time zero) 2.2 GBq/mL (60.1 mCi/mL) 10 min 4.08 10.2% 6.38 89.8%
1.6 GBq/mL (43.8 mCi/mL) 60 min - - - -
1.1 GBq/mL (30.0 mCi/mL) 120 min 4.08 28.3% 6.33 71.7%
0.76 GBq/mL (20.5 mCi/mL) 180 min 4.07 34.3% 6.34 65.7%
0.52 GBq/mL (14.0 mCi/mL) 240 min 4.11 37.2% 6.76 62.8%
Low conc. (0.89 GBq/mL or 24.0 mCi/mL at time zero) 0.74 GBq/mL (19.9 mCi/mL) 30 min 4.22 11.5% 6.41 88.5%
0.60 GBq/mL (16.4 mCi/mL) 60 min 4.04 10.0% 6.35 90.0%
0.41 GBq/mL (11.2 mCi/mL) 120 min 4.02 14.2% 6.20 85.8%
0.29 GBq/mL (7.7 mCi/mL) 180 min 4.08 13.8% 6.34 86.2%
0.20 GBq/mL (5.27 mCi/mL) 240 min 4.16 13.3% 6.79 86.7%
2 [18F]FTHA High conc. (1.25 GBq/mL or 33.9 mCi/mL at time zero) 1.2 GBq/mL (31.8 mCi/mL) 10 min 4.05 6.0% 6.15 94.0%
0.86 GBq/mL (23.2 mCi/mL) 60 min 4.05 9.1% 6.12 90.9%
0.59 GBq/mL (15.9 mCi/mL) 120 min 4.08 9.4% 6.12 90.6%
0.40 GBq/mL (10.9 mCi/mL) 180 min 4.13 11.9% 6.20 88.1%
0.28 GBq/mL (7.5 mCi/mL) 240 min 4.03 12.8% 6.14 87.2%
Low conc. (0.52 GBq/mL or 14.0 mCi/mL at time zero) 0.43 GBq/mL (11.6 mCi/mL) 30 min 3.57 5.4% 5.62 94.6%
0.36 GBq/mL or 9.6 mCi/mL 60 min 4.05 8.8% 6.14 91.2%
0.24 GBq/mL (6.5 mCi/mL) 120 min 4.03 8.3% 6.18 91.7%
0.17 GBq/mL (4.5 mCi/mL) 180 min - - - -
0.11 GBq/mL (3.0 mCi/mL) 240 min 4.09 9.8% 6.12 90.2%