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Published in final edited form as: Cytotherapy. 2021 Apr 6;23(9):757–773. doi: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2021.02.005

Table 1.

Selected examples of cell tracking with nuclear imaging.

Imaging modality	Cell type	Information obtained
SPECT	MSCs (¹¹¹In-oxine)	Success of delivery (% cells in target location)
	Hematopoietic progenitor cells (¹¹¹In-oxine,^99mTc-HMPAO)
		Longitudinal retention
		Biodistribution
	Leukocytes (¹¹¹In-oxine, ^99mTc-HMPAO)	Within-organ heterogeneity
		Migration/homing
	Dendritic cells (¹¹¹In-oxine, ^99mTc-HMPAO)	Inter-patient variability
PET	Islet cells (¹⁸FDG)	Success of delivery (% cells in target location)
	Hematopoietic progenitor cells (¹⁸FDG)
		Longitudinal retention
	Bone marrow cells (¹⁸FDG)	Biodistribution
	T cells (⁸⁹Zr-oxine)	Within-organ heterogeneity
	Natural killer cells (⁸⁹Zr-oxine)	Migration/homing
		Inter-patient variability
	MSCs (⁸⁹Zr-oxine)