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Development of Radiosynthetic Methods of 18F-THK5351 for tau PET Imaging  

Park, Jun-Young (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System)
Son, Jeong-Min (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System)
Chun, Joong-Hyun (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System)
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The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology / v.22, no.1, 2018 , pp. 51-54 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose $^{18}F-THK5351$ is the newly developed PET probe for tau imaging in alzheimer's disease. The purpose of study was to establish the automated production of $^{18}F-THK5351$ on a commercial module. Materials and Methods Two different approaches were evaluated for the synthesis of $^{18}F-THK5351$. The first approach (method I) included the nucleophilic $^{18}F$-fluorination of the tosylate precursor, subsequently followed by pre-HPLC purification of crude reaction mixture with SPE cartridge. In the second approach (method II), the crude reaction mixture was directly introduced to a semi-preparative HPLC without SPE purification. The radiosynthesis of $^{18}F-THK5351$ was performed on a commercial GE $TRACERlab^{TM}$ $FX-_{FN}$ module. Quality control of $^{18}F-THK5351$ was carried out to meet the criteria guidelined in USP for PET radiopharmaceuticals. Results The overall radiochemical yield of method I was $23.8{\pm}1.9%$ (n=4) as the decay-corrected yield (end of synthesis, EOS) and the total synthesis time was $75{\pm}3min$. The radiochemical yield of method II was $31.9{\pm}6.7%$ (decay-corrected, n=10) and the total preparation time was $70{\pm}2min$. The radiochemical purity was>98%. Conclusion This study shows that method II provides higher radiochemical yield and shorter production time compared to the pre-SPE purification described in method I. The $^{18}F-THK5351$ synthesis by method II will be ideal for routine clinical application, considering short physical half-life of fluorine-18 ($t_{1/2}=110min$).
Keywords
Alzheimer's Disease; $^{18}F-THK5351$; tau PET; Radiopharmaceutical;
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