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2219 Ioflupane
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Properties

Background

Green
Bottle

Blue
Cap

Purple
Syringe

Orange
Bubbles
No
Drops
No
Label
-

Chemistry

Formula
C18H23FINO2
Carbon
18
Polarity
Neutral

Ioflupane (¹²³I) is the international nonproprietary name (INN) of a cocaine analogue which is a neuro-imaging radiopharmaceutical drug, used in nuclear medicine for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and the differential diagnosis of Parkinson's disease over other disorders presenting similar symptoms. During the DaT scan procedure it is injected into a patient and viewed with a gamma camera in order to acquire SPECT images of the brain with particular respect to the striatum, a subcortical region of the basal ganglia. The drug is sold under the brand name Datscan and is manufactured by GE Healthcare, formerly Amersham plc.

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