Introduction: Conventional metabolite analyses often require manual sample preparation, generating variability of measurements.This study describes a new method to quantify radiometabolites in blood, combining ultra high performance liquid chromatog. (UHPLC) and turbulent flow chromatog., an alternative fully automated process allowing analyte's extractionMethods: A new radiotracer for dopamine transporter imaging, namely LBT-999, was used to demonstrate the method's robustness.Radiodetector sensitivity and preliminary evaluation were resp. determined by anal. of calibrated samples of [18F]LBT-999 and blood samples from 4 healthy subjects injected with [18F]LBT-999, withdrawn at 5, 15, 30 and 45 min pi.Results: With three sequential loadings (3 × 100μL) of the Turboflow column, mean coefficients of variation were 1%, below 2%, 2% and 30.9% for matrix effect, specificity, repeatability and intermediate precision, resp.Retention times for [18F]LBT-999 and the two radiometabolites detected by radio-UHPLC were 6.5, 4.8 and 9.6 min.Forty-five min after the injection, parent fraction was still predominant with 57.8% ± 25% of the total radioactivity.Conclusions: An innovative approach, allying UHPLC and Turboflow column, was developed and its sensitivity, linearity, specificity and repeatability validated.Preliminary results of the clin. trial are in accordance with literature data, demonstrating its efficiency in radiometabolites quantification.