RETRACTED: Radiosynthesis of 18F-labeled N-desmethyl-loperamide analogues for prospective molecular imaging radiotracers

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). rticle has been retracted at the request of This paper was published without authorization and has wrongful authorship and attribution. The Authors who made contributions to the work in Tett.Lett. 54 (2013) 1412–1415, http://dx.doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.12.121 were Xiaofeng Bao, Shuiyu Lu, Fabrice G. Siméon, Cheryl L. Morse and Victor W. Pike, all from the Molecular Imaging Branch, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health, Maryland, U.S.A. Duliang Liu did not contribute to this work. None of the work on which the paper is based was performed outside the NIMH laboratory. jority of experimental results were first presented as a poster at the 18th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences at Edmonton, Canada in 2009 and the abstract of this presentation was published by Xiaofeng Bao, Shuiyu Lu, Fabrice G. Siméon, Cheryl L. Morse and Victor W. Pike* in J. LabelledCompdRadiopharm., 2009, 52, S350-S350. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jlcr.1646/abstract..