Author: Medvedev, D.
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FRCDE2
 Accelerator Production of Medical Radionuclides  
 
  • C.S. Cutler, D. Kim, D. Medvedev
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
  
  Since 1931 major ad­vances have en­abled the pro­duc­tion of small com­pact cy­clotrons to be in­stalled at hos­pi­tals and phar­ma­cies en­abling the sup­ply of short-lived ra­dionu­clides around the world. This and the de­vel­op­ment of the gen­er­a­tor al­lowed for re­mote ac­cess to ra­dionu­clides and the ex­pan­sion of nu­clear med­i­cine. In the 1970’s and 80’s major ac­cel­er­a­tor fa­cil­i­ties op­er­at­ing at 100 MeV and higher were in­stalled in many of the na­tional labs and used for pro­duc­tion of ra­dionu­clides at en­er­gies and cur­rents not avail­able on the small com­pact ma­chines. These high en­ergy ac­cel­er­a­tors have played an im­por­tant role in sup­ply­ing Ra­dionu­clides such as Sr-82 used in Sr/Rb gen­er­a­tors for car­diac imag­ing and Ac-225 for can­cer ther­apy. They con­tinue to be ad­vanced to fur­ther pro­duc­tion yields by in­stalling beam ras­ter­ing sys­tems that have al­lowed higher in­ten­si­ties and thus higher pro­duc­tion yields. As well as adding mass sep­a­ra­tion tech­niques that en­able novel ra­dionu­clides to be pro­duced in qual­ity suit­able for use. These en­hanced ac­cel­er­a­tor ca­pa­bil­i­ties and the pro­duc­tion of these novel ra­dionu­clides will be pre­sented.  
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