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PET Radionuclide Production

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Radiopharmaceuticals for Positron Emission Tomography

Part of the book series: Developments in Nuclear Medicine ((DNUM,volume 24))

Abstract

Several short-lived positron-emitters are routinely used in PET studies while a few others are of potential interest. A brief review of the decay data and production methods for several of these positron-emitters is given. Special attention is paid to the production of the four major positron-emitters, namely carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18, which are widely applied in several European PET centres.

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