Radioactive scanning agents with hydroquinone stabilizer
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorHarry S. Whitehouse
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Abstract
Stable compositions, useful as technetium-99m-based scintigraphic agents, comprise hydroquinone in combination with a pertechnetate reducing agent or dissolved in pertechnetate-99m (.sup.99m TcO.sub.4.sup.-) solution. The compositions are especially useful in combination with a phosphate or phosphonate material which carries the radionuclide to bone, thus providing a skeletal imaging agent.
Claims21
A stable composition, useful in the preparation of technetium-99 m-based radiographic scanning agents, comprising:
- a pertechnetate reducing agent;
- and a stabilizing amount of a quinone stabilizer selected from hydroquinone and quinonoid species thereof.
A composition useful in the preparation of technetium-99 m-based radiographic scanning agents, comprising:
- an oxidized pertechnetate solution having dissolved therein a stabilizing amount of a quinone stabilizer selected from hydroquinone or a quinonoid species thereof.
A method of preparing a stabilized technetium-99 m-based scanning agent, comprising codissolving a stabilizing amount of a quinone stabilizer selected from hydroquinone or a quinonoid speciesthereof with an aqueous solution of radioactive technetium in the +3, +4 or +5 valence state.
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