Further Radiopharmaceuticals for Positron Emission Tomography and New Strategies for Their Production, Volume 2

This book describes methods and procedures for preparing PETradiopharmaceuticals, and highlights new methods for conductingradiochemical reactions with carbon-11 (C11) and fluorine-18 (F18), which are two of the most commonly used radionuclides in positronemission tomography (PET) imaging.

- Provides reliable methods forradiochemical syntheses and reactions, including all essentialinformation to duplicate the procedure
- Eliminates the time-consuming process ofsearching journal articles and extracting pertinent details fromlengthy experimental sections or supporting information
- Focuses on an emerging and important areafor pharmaceutical and medical applications
- Encompasses technical, regulatory, andapplication aspects
- Includes solid-phase radiochemistry, transition-metal catalyzed radiochemistry, microfluidics, clickchemistry, green radiochemistry and new strategies forradiopharmaceutical quality control