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18fdg Synthesis And Supply: A Journey From Existing Centralized To Future Decentralized Models, Maseeh Uz Zaman, Nosheen Fatima, Zafar Sajjad, Unaiza Zaman, Rabia Tahseen, Areeba Zaman

Department of Radiology

Positron emission tomography (PET) as the functional component of current hybrid imaging (like PET/ CT or PET/MRI) seems to dominate the horizon of medical imaging in coming decades. 18Flourodeoxyglucose (18FDG) is the most commonly used probe in oncology and also in cardiology and neurology around the globe. However, the major capital cost and exorbitant running expenditure of low to medium energy cyclotrons (about 20 MeV) and radiochemistry units are the seminal reasons of low number of cyclotrons but mushroom growth pattern of PET scanners. This fact and longer half-life of 18F (110 minutes) have paved the path of a centralized …