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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 11.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Biomed Eng. 2022 Apr 11;6(5):559–568. doi: 10.1038/s41551-022-00876-4

Table 1 |. Radiotracers and details of accrual for IRB 17–538 specifying range of radiotracer administered and number of patient imaging sessions accrued at the time of writing.

Details reflect range of administered activity to the patient and computed Cerenkov light based on (43,53).

Radio-pharmaceutical Indication Clinical imaging mode Typical dose,
mCi (GBq)
Cerenkov light generated by isotope
(photons/decay)43,53
Total possible Cerenkov light at injection
(photons/second) × 109
Number of patient imaging sessions
Na131I Thyroid cancer adjuvant therapy SPECT 27–200
(1.0–7.4)
0.669 5.0 25
18F-FDG General disease staging PET 10–14.9
(0.37–0.55)
1.32 0.7 20
68Ga-DOTATATE Neuroendocrine PET imaging PET 4.4–5.5
(119–149)
33.9 6.3 28
177Lu-DOTATATE Neuroendocrine radiotherapy SPECT 188–200
(6.9–7.4)
0.141 1.0 26
223RaCl2 Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer therapy None (separate PET or SPECT scan) 0.091–0.177
(0.0033–0.0065)
28.0104
(with daughters)
0.2 7