FMISO
18F-FMISO or fluoromisonidazole is a radiopharmaceutical used for PET imaging of hypoxia. It consists of a 2-nitroimidazole molecule labelled with the positron-emitter fluorine-18. Hypoxia is considered a negative prognostic marker for many solid tumours, and therefore an agent to detect and quantify it is highly desirable. FMISO was one of the first such agents, after initial synthesis in the late 1980s. It remains among the most popular agents for investigation of hypoxia imaging.
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| Other names | [18F]FMISO; 1H-1-(3-[18F]fluoro-2-hydroxypropyl)-2-nitroimidazole |
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| Formula | C6H818FN3O |
| Molar mass | 188.15 g/mol |
18F-FMISO or fluoromisonidazole is a radiopharmaceutical used for PET imaging of hypoxia. It consists of a 2-nitroimidazole molecule labelled with the positron-emitter fluorine-18.[1]
Hypoxia is considered a negative prognostic marker for many solid tumours, and therefore an agent to detect and quantify it is highly desirable.[2] FMISO was one of the first such agents, after initial synthesis in the late 1980s.[3][4][5] It remains among the most popular agents for investigation of hypoxia imaging.[6][7][8]
Mechanism
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On entering a viable cell, the nitro group of the FMISO nitroimidazole is reduced.[10] In non-hypoxic cells, the reduced FMISO molecule can be oxidised, and therefore diffuses out of the cell to circulate freely and ultimately be excreted. In hypoxic tumour cells however this oxidation cannot take place and the FMISO molecules accumulate. Their location can then be quantitatively imaged using positron emission tomography.[9][11]
Clinical use
[edit]Large scale clinical trials with FMISO have not been carried out, however there is some evidence from small-scale early-stage imaging trials that PET-measured hypoxia (using FMISO, and the alternative radiotracer FAZA) is linked to overall survival and loco-regional control in head and neck cancer patients.[12] Similar correlations have been found in other cancers, including breast cancer and brain tumours.[10][13] Direct impacts on patient care has not yet been conclusively demonstrated however.[11]
The use of hypoxia imaging to guide radiotherapy treatments is an area of active research.[14] Despite some positive early results further research is required to characterise the specificity and sensitivity of FMISO, and exactly how hypoxia levels should influence treatment planning decisions. Similarly, hypoxia imaging could be used to screen patients before the prescription of hypoxic guided drugs. It may also be useful as a post-treatment measure of effectiveness for both radiotherapy and chemotherapy.[15][16]
Outside of oncology, there is interest in cardiac hypoxia imaging. FMISO has had limited interest for this purpose, in part due to low target-to-background contrast and long injection to imaging delays (due to slow blood clearance) requiring high injected activities.[17]
References
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- ^ a b Masaki Y, Shimizu Y, Yoshioka T, Tanaka Y, Nishijima K, Zhao S, et al. (November 2015). "The accumulation mechanism of the hypoxia imaging probe "FMISO" by imaging mass spectrometry: possible involvement of low-molecular metabolites". Scientific Reports. 5 (1) 16802. Bibcode:2015NatSR...516802M. doi:10.1038/srep16802. PMC 4652161. PMID 26582591.
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- ^ Zschaeck S, Löck S, Hofheinz F, Zips D, Saksø Mortensen L, Zöphel K, et al. (August 2020). "Individual patient data meta-analysis of FMISO and FAZA hypoxia PET scans from head and neck cancer patients undergoing definitive radio-chemotherapy". Radiotherapy and Oncology. 149: 189–196. doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2020.05.022. hdl:2078.1/250290. PMID 32417350. S2CID 218678537.
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- ^ Lopes S, Ferreira S, Caetano M (June 2021). "PET/CT in the Evaluation of Hypoxia for Radiotherapy Planning in Head and Neck Tumors: Systematic Literature Review". Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology. 49 (2): 107–113. doi:10.2967/jnmt.120.249540. hdl:10400.21/13161. PMID 33361182.
- ^ Xu Z, Li XF, Zou H, Sun X, Shen B (November 2017). "18F-Fluoromisonidazole in tumor hypoxia imaging". Oncotarget. 8 (55): 94969–94979. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.21662. PMC 5706929. PMID 29212283.
- ^ Marcus C, Subramaniam RM (January 2021). "Role of Non-FDG-PET/CT in Head and Neck Cancer". Seminars in Nuclear Medicine. 51 (1): 68–78. doi:10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2020.07.008. PMID 33246541. S2CID 225405293.
- ^ Pell VR, Baark F, Mota F, Clark JE, Southworth R (March 2018). "PET Imaging of Cardiac Hypoxia: Hitting Hypoxia Where It Hurts". Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports. 11 (3): 7. doi:10.1007/s12410-018-9447-3. PMC 5830463. PMID 29515752.
External links
[edit]- 18F-Fluoromisonidazole, Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database (MICAD)