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Short-lived, positron-emitting radionuclides of nitrogen and carbon may be generated with a cyclotron and used to label biologically active compounds such as amino acids for in vivo metabolic studies. The 10-min half-life of nitrogen-13 results in relatively small radiation exposures to the patient; but it requires that the chemist develop new and rapid procedures to synthesize adequate amounts of radiolabeled compounds.
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Gelbard, A.S. (1980). 13N-L-Amino Acids Synthesized Enzymatically for in vivo Metabolic Studies. In: Horst, W., Wagner, H.N., Buchanan, J.W. (eds) Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67575-1_17
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