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Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society (BKCS)

ISSN 0253-2964(Print)
ISSN 1229-5949(Online)
Volume 19, Number 9
BKCSDE 19(9)
September 20, 1998 

 
Title
Development of an Automated System for the Routine Preparation of Carbon-1 Labeled Radiopharmaceuticals
Author
Seung-Jun Oh, Yearn Seong Choe, Young Sear Kim, Yong Choi, Sang Eun Kim, Kyung Han Lee, Hyun-Joon Ha, Byung-Tae Kim
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Abstract
An automated system was developed for the routine preparation of carbon-11 (11C) labeled radiopharmaceuticals, which consisted of three major parts including [11C]methylation of the precursor with [11C] iodomethane ([11C]CH3I), purification of the desired product and formulation of the final "C labeled radiopharmaceutical. The whole system included seven three-way slider valves, eleven solenoid valves, four pneumatic cylinders, a HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography) system and a rotary evaporator. Using this system, we investigated the radiochemical synthesis of L-[methyl-11C]methionine, which is the most widely used amino acid in tumor PET (Positron Emission Tomography) studies. The overall operation took 3035 min including the production of [11C]CH3I (10.5 min) and decay-corrected radiochemical yield was 25%. The automated system we described herein can be widely utilized for the preparation of many 11C labeled radiopharinaceuticals and has been shown to be efficient, reliable and easy to operate.
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