| Literature DB >> 3792366 |
P S Conti, P P Sordillo, B Schmall, R S Benua, J R Bading, R E Bigler, J S Laughlin.
Abstract
A 29 year-old-man presenting with advanced metastatic malignant melanoma was successfully imaged using carbon-11 (11C) labeled alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB), a synthetic, non-metabolized amino acid transported into viable cells by the A-type, or alanine-preferring, amino acid transport system. Tumor located in the hilum of the lung was well visualized with 11C-AIB prior to chemotherapy. A gallium image with liver subtraction using 99mTc-sulfur colloid demonstrated regions of increased activity in liver which correlated with regions of increased activity on the 11C-AIB liver image.Entities:
Mesh:
Substances:
Year: 1986 PMID: 3792366 DOI: 10.1007/bf00263819
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Nucl Med ISSN: 0340-6997