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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Med Chem. 2020 Dec 30;64(1):123–149. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c01459

Table 1.

Radiolabeling and PET imaging application of CB1R specific tracers

Radioligand (RCYs) PET imaging study
subject brain uptake
[11c]5
(16±5%a)
Rodents:obesity (myocardial imaging) NHP
Human: SZ; obesity (myocardial imaging); alcohol dependence
Mouse: 6.6 %ID/g (striatum, 15 min) Baboon: BP: 1.3 (putamen) Human: VT: 1.35±0.35 Human: SUVmax = 1.75±0.35 (putamen) Human: VT: 0.72±0.07 (putamen)
[11C]6 (2.5%±1.1 %b) Rodents, NHP Human: SZ Monkey: VT: 24.3 (mL/m3, striatum) Human: VT: 29.1±17.4 (putamen) Human: SUVmax= 3.5±0.5 (putamen)
[11C]7 (16.5%b) Rodents, NHP Rat: high BBB permeability, high specificity to CB1R Monkey: SUVmax = 3.3 (30 min)
[18F]8 (7.92±2.16%b) Rodents, NHP Rat: high BBB permeability, high specificly to CB1R Monkey: SUVmax = 2.75±0.75 (15 min)
[18F]9 (5.92%±1.34%b) Rodents, NHP Rat: high BBB permeability, high specificity to CB1IR Monkey: SUVmax = 5.75±0.75 (20 min)
[18F]10 (7.93±2.48%b) Rodents: AD; BAT NHP
Human: chronic cannabis smokers; alcohol-dependent; SZ; Psychosis
Mouse: 1.5 %ID/mL (BAT) Monkey: SUVmax = 5.5±1.0 (20 min) Monkey: VT 35.4 (mL/m3, striatum) Human: SUVmax = 3.5±0.5 (putamen) Human: VT 24.3±7.2 (putamen)
[18F]11 (-) Rodents: HD; PD NHP
Human: anorexia and bulimia nervosa; episodic migraine; epilepsy; HD
Rat, Monkey: high BBB permeability, high specificity to CB1R Human: SUVmax = 15±0.2 (putamen) Human: VT 25.1±13.3 (putamen)
[11C]12 (50%a) Rodents, NHP, Human Monkey: VT: 2.36 (mL/m3, striatum) Human: SUVmax = 2.35±0.65 (putamen) Human: VT: 3.15±0.70 (putamen)
[11C]15 (7.35±4.25%b) NHP Monkey: SUVmax = 2.2±0.5 (120 min)
[18F]16 (3.55±2.05%b) NHP Monkey: SUVmax = 1.8 (240 min)
[11C]7 (17±8%) Rodents: BAT Mouse: 2.8 %ID/mL (BAT)
a

non-decay corrected RCYs

b

decay corrected RCYs

The data of PET imaging are listed only in the control group.