Barrington, Sally F https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2516-5288
Cooper, Margaret
Krokos, Georgios
Yu, Zilin
Darwesh, Afnan MF
Gibson, Victoria
Tegala, Ronan
Blower, Julia E
Dibua, Maria
Jacob, Armidita
John, Joemon
Pereira, Sofia
Cole, Laura
Price, Nicholas
Sallam, Morad
Blower, Philip J
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health and Care Research (RP-2016-07-001)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/S032789/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (WT203148/Z/16/Z)
Article History
Received: 27 October 2025
Accepted: 26 February 2026
First Online: 6 March 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: PET/CT imaging and biodistribution preclinical experiments were performed in accordance with the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act, 1986. and approved by the Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body for King’s College London. The clinical study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the UK Health Research Agency and the Health and Care Research Wales Ethics committee (20/EM/0092) on 29 June 2020. Written informed consent was obtained from the patients.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.