COMPOUNDS, KITS AND METHODS FOR USE IN MEDICAL IMAGING

摘要

FDG alternatives are provided. They consist of a two component system comprising on the one hand a building block such as glucose linked to an azide, alkyne or phosphine and on the other hand a detectable label linked to an azide, alkyne or phosphine which is the counterpart of the group linked to glucose in a Staudinger ligation reaction or a [3+2] cycloaddition reaction. It is preferred that the glucose is linked to an azide group and the detectable label is linked to a phosphine or cycloalkyne group. The detectable label is preferably a PET radionuclide label such as ¹⁸F.