TY  - JOUR
AU  - Desaulniers, Mélanie
AU  - Rousseau, Étienne
AU  - Pabst, Kim M
TI  - Clinical and Research Applications of FAPI Tracers: A Review.
JO  - BJR
VL  - nn
SN  - 0007-1285
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
M1  - DKFZ-2025-00298
SP  - nn
PY  - 2025
N1  - epub
AB  - In the last decade, fibroblast activation protein-α inhibitors (FAPIs), which target the cancer-associated fibroblasts of the tumour microenvironment, have become a topic of great interest. In oncology, FAPI PET/CT imaging has repeatedly demonstrated a higher lesion detection rate than other conventional imaging modalities such as CT or 18F-FDG PET/CT for several tumours. In some cases, the initial staging and therapeutic management may even change. Some FAPI radioligands may also be labelled with therapeutic radionuclides for theranostic applications. It is thus possible to treat certain metastatic cancers with FAPI radioligand therapy (FAPI-RLT), which is generally well tolerated with little toxicity. Recently, new FAPIs have been developed with the particularity of having a higher binding affinity the target, which further improves the lesion detection rate on PET/CT and clinical outcomes following FAPI-RLT. This review provides recent updates in the clinical use of FAPI PET/CT and FAPI-RLT, and discusses potential emergent applications, including in inflammation imaging.
KW  - FAPI PET (Other)
KW  - FAPI radioligand therapy (Other)
KW  - fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (Other)
KW  - theranostics (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:39908453
DO  - DOI:10.1093/bjr/tqaf020
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/298581
ER  -