Non-invasive visualization of pH changes within the tumor-micro-environment by positron emission tomography
Jürgen Brück, Dominik Schauenburg, Seah Ling Kuan, Simeon Göttert, Benedikt Klasen, Veronika Frommberger, Kazem Ebadi Jalal, Nabil Boui, Aron Kwiatkowski, Lisa Schake, Tobias Bopp, Toszka Bohn, Tanja Weil, M. Schreckenberger, Matthias Miederer
This paper develops a PET-based method to visualize pH changes in the tumor microenvironment using [18F]FDG-4MBA, showing it can detect small pH differences in different tumors in the same mouse.
EJNMMI Research · Feb 5, 2026Peer-reviewedCancer Biology