Biology:List of PET radiotracers

This is a list of positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracers. These are chemical compounds in which one or more atoms have been replaced by a short-lived, positron emitting radioisotope.

Cardiology

• [¹⁵O] water
• [¹³N] ammonia
• [⁸²Rb] Rubidium-82 chloride
• [¹¹C] Acetate (Also used in oncology)

Neurology

• [¹¹C] 25B-NBOMe (Cimbi-36)
• [¹⁸F] Altanserin
• [¹¹C] Carfentanil
• [¹¹C] DASB
• [¹¹C] DTBZ or [¹⁸F]Fluoropropyl-DTBZ
• [¹¹C] [¹¹C] ME@HAPTHI
• [¹⁸F] Fallypride
• [¹⁸F] Florbetaben
• [¹⁸F] Flubatine
• [¹⁸F] Fluspidine
• [¹⁸F] Florbetapir
• [¹⁸F] or [¹¹C] Flumazenil
• [¹⁸F] Flutemetamol
• [¹⁸F] Fluorodopa
• [¹⁸F] Desmethoxyfallypride
• [¹⁸F] Mefway
• [¹⁸F] MPPF
• [¹⁸F] Nifene
• [¹¹C] Pittsburgh compound B
• [¹¹C] Raclopride
• [¹⁸F] Setoperone
• [¹⁸F] or [¹¹C] N-Methylspiperone
• [¹¹C] Verapamil

NIMH maintains a list of CNS radiotracers that may be useful for additional information.

Neuroepigenetics

• [¹¹C] Martinostat

Oncology

• [¹⁸F] Fludeoxyglucose (18F) (FDG)-glucose analogue
• [¹¹C] Acetate
• [¹¹C] Methionine
• [¹¹C] choline
• [¹⁸F] EF5
• [¹⁸F] Fluciclovine
• [¹⁸F] Fluorocholine
• [¹⁸F] FET
• [¹⁸F] FMISO
• [¹⁸F] Fluorothymidine F-18
• [⁶⁴Cu] Cu-ETS2
• [⁶⁴Cu] Copper-64 DOTA-TATE
• [⁶⁸Ga] DOTA-pseudopeptides
• [⁶⁸Ga] DOTA-TATE
• [⁶⁸Ga] PSMA
• [⁶⁸Ga] CXCR4; solid and hematologic cancers

Infectious diseases

• [¹⁸F] Fluorodeoxysorbitol (FDS)

Further reading

CNS Radiotracers that have been advanced for use in Human Studies