一種目前正在研發的新型心臟功能造影劑，能夠幫助患者在靜息狀態下評估急性和慢性冠狀動脈疾病。

FluoroPharma公司(Boston, MA, USA)已經宣布開始I期臨床試驗，評估該公司的新型正電子發射掃描成像(PET)造影劑CardioPET，此項臨床試驗已經得到了學術評估委員會(IRB)的批準。I期臨床試驗是單中心、開放標簽的臨床研究，主要是在健康受試者中評估CardioPET作為心肌成像示蹤劑的安全性、體內分布和放射劑量。

這項研究是由Alan Fischman醫生主持的，他是美國麻省總醫院(MGH; Boston, MA, USA)核醫學科的主任。在2006年5月，FluoroPharma公司為CardioPET進行了了新藥研制申請(IND)，這是該公司的第一項IND。

 
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FluoroPharma, Inc. (Boston, MA, USA), has announced the start of phase I clinical trials for its new positron emission tomography (PET) agent, CardioPET, following institutional review board (IRB) approval of the proposed studies. The phase I trial is a single center, open label study, designed to evaluate safety, distribution, and dosimetry of CardioPET as a PET tracer for myocardial imaging in healthy subjects.

The study will be led by Dr. Alan Fischman, director of the nuclear medicine division at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH; Boston, MA, USA). In May 2006, FluoroPharma filed an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for CardioPET, which is the company’s first IND.