WANG Lihua WANG Yongxian YIN Duanzhi. Application of somatostatin and their analogues in nuclear medicine[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2003, (7): 537-544.DOI:
Receptor targeting with radiolabeled peptides has become very important in nuclear oncology in the past few years. The most frequently used peptides in the clinic are analogs of somatostatin
e.g. octreoscan
which contain chelators for the radioisotopes 111In
90Y
67Ga
68Ga and 64Cu or for 99Tcm and 188Re
and are labeled with the halogens 123I and 18F. Somatostatin analogs and their radiolabeling are introduced in this article
and the most frequently used somatostatin analog imaging agents are reviewed. In addition
some important developments in exploiting these agents are presented too.