Impact of Peptides and Chelators on Somatostatin Receptor Antagonists

Somatostatin receptor antagonists are emerging agents in molecular imaging of neuroendocrine tumors. There're two main antagonist peptides, namely JR11 and LM3, which can be coupled with different chelators, DOTA and NODAGA. Previous studies by our and other groups have revealed the different diagnostic performances of these tracers. However, head-to-head comparison data is still missing. In this study, we aim to evaluate the diagnostic performance of four different antagonists, that is, NODAGA-LM3, DOTA-LM3, and NODAGA-JR11, all labeled with gallium-68.