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Facile [11C]PIB Synthesis Using an On-cartridge Methylation and Purification Showed Higher Specific Activity than Conventional Method Using Loop and High Performance Liquid Chromatography Purification  

Lee, Yong-Seok (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital)
Cho, Yong-Hyun (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital)
Lee, Hong-Jae (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital)
Lee, Yun-Sang (Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital)
Jeong, Jae Min (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital)
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The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology / v.22, no.2, 2018 , pp. 67-73 More about this Journal
Abstract
$[^{11}C]PIB$ synthesis has been performed by a loop-methylation and HPLC purification in our lab. However, this method is time-consuming and requires complicated systems. Thus, we developed an on-cartridge method which simplified the synthetic procedure and reduced time greatly by removing HPLC purification step. We compared 6 different cartridges and evaluated the $[^{11}C]PIB$ production yields and specific activities. $[^{11}C]MeOTf$ was synthesized by using TRACERlab FXC Pro and was transferred into the cartridge by blowing with helium gas for 3 min. To remove byproducts and impurities, cartridges were washed out by 20 mL of 30% EtOH in 0.5 M $NaH_2PO_4$ solution (pH 5.1) and 10 mL of distilled water. And then, $[^{11}C]PIB$ was eluted by 5 mL of 30% EtOH in 0.5 M $NaH_2PO_4$ into the collecting vial containing 10 mL saline. Among the 6 cartridges, only tC18 environmental cartridge could remove impurities and byproducts from $[^{11}C]PIB$ completely and showed higher specific activity than traditional HPLC purification method. This method took only 8 ~ 9 min from methylation to formulation. For the tC18 environmental cartridge and conventional HPLC loop methods, the radiochemical yields were $12.3{\pm}2.2%$ and $13.9{\pm}4.4%$, respectively, and the molar activities were $420.6{\pm}20.4GBq/{\mu}mol$ (n=3) and $78.7{\pm}39.7GBq/{\mu}mol$ (n=41), respectively. We successfully developed a facile on-cartridge methylation method for $[^{11}C]PIB$ synthesis which enabled the procedure more simple and rapid, and showed higher molar radio-activity than HPLC purification method.
Keywords
$[^{11}C]PIB$; tC18 Cartridge; Cartridge purification;
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