Amino Acid Tracer (FACBC) Positron Emission Tomography for Lung Nodule

Summary

This study will look at how the \[18\]FACBC goes into the lung nodules. This will hopefully lead to the development of better imaging techniques to look at lung nodules. \[18\]FACBC is not approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). This study will help to determine if it should be approved by the FDA.

Timeline

Start

2009-05

Primary completion

2012-06

Completion

2013-01

Publications

• Results Amzat R, Taleghani P, Miller DL, Beitler JJ, Bellamy LM, Nye JA, Yu W, Savir-Baruch B, Osunkoya AO, Chen Z, Auffermann WF, Goodman MM, Schuster DM. Pilot study of the utility of the synthetic PET amino-acid radiotracer anti-1-amino-3-[(18)F]fluorocyclobutane-1-carboxylic acid for the noninvasive imaging of pulmonary lesions. Mol Imaging Biol. 2013 Oct;15(5):633-43. doi: 10.1007/s11307-012-0606-7.

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