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Precursors to radiopharmaceutical agents for tissue imaging

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6757622
A compound is described comprising: a heterocyclic moiety wherein the hetero member of the heterocyclic moiety is nitrogen; the heterocyclic moiety being quaternary and capable of being reduced to a dihydrogenated form; the heterocyclic moiety having a carbonyl group attached to a carbon of the ring of the heterocyclic moiety; the heterocyclic moiety being coupled at the carbonyl carbon with the amino nitrogen of an aromatic or aromatic alkyl amine; the aromatic or aromatic alkyl amine having attached to a carbon of the aromatic ring a moiety that is readily replaced by a radiohalide selected from the group a substituted triazene, mercuric acetate and a boron moiety.
Assignee:
Dept. of Energy, Washington, DC
Patent Number(s):
US 4764598
OSTI ID:
6757622
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English