Tracers / [68Ga]Ga-DOTANOC

[68Ga]Ga-DOTANOC

Also written as [68Ga]Ga-DOTANOC; [Ga-68]Ga-DOTANOC; DOTA-NOC; DOTANOC; Ga-68 DOTA-NOC; Ga-68 DOTANOC; Ga-68-DOTANOC
Radionuclide
Ga-68 t½ 67.71 min
Modality
PET
Production route
Stage
Syntheses indexed
12

What it is

Compound class
Radiolabelled somatostatin analogue peptide (1-Nal3-octreotide, DOTA-conjugated)
Target / mechanism
Somatostatin receptors, primarily subtypes 2 and 5 (broader subtype profile than DOTATOC) PMID 17874094
Clinical application
Neuroendocrine tumour PET imaging PMID 17874094
Theranostic pair
<a href="/tracers/sc47-dotanoc/">sc47-dotanoc</a>

Regulatory status

FDA
EMA (centralised)
Other approvals
Brand names

Clinical use

Typical injected activity
Uptake time

Reported in the literature. Not a dosing recommendation.

Published syntheses

ModuleCassettePurificationYield %RCP %Precursor / supplierSource
FASTlab
GE HealthCare
SPE66.13±3.35
yes
99.38±0.31DOTANOC
ABX
25369268
2014 PLoS One
Most of the synthesis was performed using an automated process programmed in a FastLab module (General Electric Healthcare). — the decay-corrected radiochemical yield (%) was 54.03±2.45, 66.13±3.35 and 67.81±3.12
ITG labeling module
ITG (Isotope Technologies Garching)
vendor cassetteSPEMean impurity B (%) ± SD 0.21 ± 0.18DOTA-NOC acetate
ABX
25932354
2015 EJNMMI Res
a labelling module for manual operation and a GMP grade 925 MBq 68Ge/68Ga generator were obtained from ITG (Gärching/Munich, Germany)
42115250
2026 Sci Rep
41693498
2026 Nucl Med Commun
38361734
2024 Cureus
FASTlab
GE HealthCare
SPE66.13
yes
99.38DOTANOC
ABX
25369268
2014 PLoS One
Most of the synthesis was performed using an automated process programmed in a FastLab module (General Electric Healthcare). — 66.1% for 68Ga-DOTANOC
23522791
2013 Appl Radiat Isot
68% ± 3%exceeding 97%DOTANOC30672007
2019 J Labelled Comp Radiopharm
Automated production of [68 Ga]Ga-DOTANOC and [68 Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 using a TRACERlab FXFN synthesis module. — 68% ± 3% for [68 Ga]Ga-DOTANOC (n > 100)
>95%27907840
2017 Nucl Med Biol
without use of any synthesis module
DOTANOC23297077
2013 J Nucl Med
Labeling of DOTANOC and DOTATATE with (68)Ga was standardized using a fully automated synthesis device.
24120219
2014 Nucl Med Biol
using a SCINTOMICS GRP module and an iThemba Labs generator
42410759
2026 Clin Nucl Med

Precursor

Common precursor
DOTANOC PMID 25369268 (DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0111624)
Suppliers seen in the literature
ABX GmbH (Radeberg, Germany)
Cited suppliers in indexed syntheses
ABX
Typical final purification
SPE

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Quality control Derived from the published synthesis

Ph. Eur. monograph
USP monograph
AppearancepHRCP HPLCHPLC UVRadionuclidic (HPGe)Half-lifeActivityEndotoxins (LAL)SterilityFilter integrityMolar activityMetal impuritiesGe-68 breakthrough
How this set was arrived at. base set per Ph. Eur. general monograph 0125 (rule); radiometal tracer -> metal impurities (rule); Ga-68, generator-produced per synthesis data (PMID 25369268) -> Ge-68 breakthrough; receptor ligand with a saturable target -> molar activity (rule)

Tests listed by reference only. Monograph texts are copyrighted and are not reproduced here. How these are derived

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Notes

Added from reverse module search (stage 6); 11 article(s) with Ga-68. Also seen with Cu-61[1] (too few articles for own row).