Efficient bifunctional gallium-68 chelators for positron emission tomography: tris(hydroxypyridinone) ligands

David J. Berry, Yongmin Ma, James R. Ballinger, Richard Tavaré, Alexander Koers, Kavitha Sunassee, Tao Zhou, Saima Nawaz, Gregory Mullen, Robert C. Hider,

Chemical Communications · 2011 · 138 citations · 17 references

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Abstract

A new tripodal tris(hydroxypyridinone) bifunctional chelator for gallium allows easy production of (68)Ga-labelled proteins rapidly under mild conditions in high yields at exceptionally high specific activity and low concentration.

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