11C-choline
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- A radioactive substance being studied in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to find certain types of cancer.
- 11C-choline gets taken up by cells in the body and more of it is taken up by cancer cells than by normal cells.
- A PET scanner is used to find which cells in the body have taken up 11C-choline.
- Also called carbon C 11-choline.
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