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Objective: To enable imaging at an earlier time after injection, a radiopharmaceutical with higher affinity for bone, larger ratio of bone-to-soft tissue uptake and more rapid disappearance from blood is required.The purpose of this study is to optimize the linker chain between the imidazolyl and geminal diphosphonate group in the typical third-generation diphosphonate of zoledronic acid (ZL) to develop a novel SPECT bone imaging agent.Methods: A novel ZL derivative, 1-hydroxy-3-(1H-imidazol-1-yl)propane-1,1-diyldiphosphonic acid (IPrDP), was prepared and labeled with 99mTc successfully in a high labeling yield.Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) bone scanning was performed on the rabbit.A series of dynamic and static images were recorded by Philips SKY Light emission computed tomography.Results: The time-activity curves indicating the uptake tendency of 99mTc-IPrDP and 99mTc-ZL in the bone and some soft tissues were collected.It is obvious that the uptake ratios of bone to heart,liver, kidney, muscle and stomach increase continuously with the passage of time for both radioligands.Remarkably, in all the period the uptake ratios of bone to soft tissues for 99mTc-IPrDP are much higher than those of 99mTc-ZL.This further demonstrates that 99mTc-IPrDP has good stability in the bone and rapid clearance from the soft tissues.Excellent images of the rabbit skeleton can be quickly obtained for 99mTc-IPrDP, which was faster than 99mTc-ZL and the clinically widely-used bone-imaging agent 99mTc-MDP.On the other hand, one can see that three radiolabeled complexes are all excreted from the kidney from static images, and 99mTc-IPrDP has highly selective skeletal uptake in the rabbit at different time intervals after administration of intravenous injection.Conclusions: 99mTc-IPrDP possesses excellent imaging characteristics for the application as a novel bone scanning agent.And it is notable that 99mTc-IPrDP and 99mTc-ZL are eliminated faster than the clinically widely-used bone-imaging agent 99mTc-MDP.This may shorten the interval and lessen the burden on patients in terms of the total time of examination and the dose of radiation absorbed.