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Florbetapir (18F) (trade name AMYViD; also known as florbetapir-fluorine-18 or 18F-AV-45) is a PET scanning radiopharmaceutical compound containing the radionuclide fluorine-18 recently FDA approved as a diagnostic tool for Alzheimer’s disease. Florbetapir like Pittsburgh compound B (PiB) binds to beta-amyloid but due to its use of fluorine-18 has a half-life of 110 minutes in contrast to PiB’s radioactive half life of 20 minutes. Wong et al.

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IUPAC name
(E)-4-(2-(6-(2-(2-(2-([18F]-fluoroethoxy)ethoxy)ethoxy)pyridin-3-yl)vinyl)-N-methyl benzenamine

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