Tracers / [90Y]Y-microsphere

[90Y]Y-microsphere

Also written as [Y-90]microsphere; Y-90-Microsphere; Y-90-TARE; Y-90-SIRT; [Y-90]Yttria; [Y-90]yttria
Radionuclide
Y-90 t½ 3843.6 min
Modality
Therapy
Production route
Stage
approved
Syntheses indexed
11

What it is

Compound class
Yttrium-90 microspheres (radioembolization microspheres)
Target / mechanism
Clinical application
Selective internal radiation treatment (SIRT) / transarterial radioembolization for liver tumours (primary and metastatic liver cancer) PMID 24036875
Theranostic pair

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

ModuleCassettePurificationFormYield %RCP %Precursor / supplierSource
37226091
2023 BMC Gastroenterol
resin24036875
2013 J Appl Clin Med Phys
resin42476033
2026 Nucl Med Biol
42359903
2026 Anal Methods
resin42263447
2026 Nucl Med Biol
42230138
2026 J Neurointerv Surg
resin42203908
2026 Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol
resin41842669
2026 Radiology
glass41842669
2026 Radiology
resin41217471
2026 Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging
resin40762798
2026 Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging

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Notes

Added at stage 21 from therapy-discovered.xlsx (bulk PubMed search by isotope/therapy-type/known-agent, not individually researched yet) -- 2 articles found. Target/mechanism, clinical application, indications, approval and precursor fields still need per-agent research and are intentionally left empty. | Stage 29 (2026-09-14): merged y90-tare, y90-sirt, y90-yttria into this row per user decision -- TARE/SIRT are procedure names (trans-arterial radioembolization / selective internal radiation therapy) and 'yttria' names the carrier material of the glass-type microsphere, not separate substances; resin vs glass is now tracked per-run in the parsed files' new 'Formulation / carrier' field (resin/glass/not stated), not as separate agents -- same isotope, same therapeutic principle, different carrier. One PMID from the y90-tare discovery cluster (33529007, 'Iodine-131 Microbeads...') was never actually about this agent -- it was never linked in any parsed file or corpus Tracer key, so nothing needed unlinking.