Journal
RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY
Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages 280-287Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.07.022
Keywords
Glucose metabolism; Amino acid metabolism; Hypoxia; Proliferation; Lipid metabolism; Angiogenesis; SSTR expression
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During the last decade several different PET radiopharmaceuticals entered into the clinic and positron emission tomography (PET) became an important tool for staging of cancer patients and assessing response to therapy. Meanwhile FDG-PET has also found application in radiation treatment planning. Potential radiopharmaceuticals for radiation treatment planning may also include tracers allowing monitoring of proliferation, amino acid metabolism, hypoxia, lipid metabolism and receptor expression. Here the syntheses of a selection of clinically tested promising tracers are summarized and the different molecular mechanisms for accumulation are discussed which may help to choose the appropriate tracer for planning radiation treatment strategies. (C) 2010 European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology and European Association of Nuclear Medicine. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. 96 (2010) 280-287
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