With 225+ isotopes available for purchase, the U.S. Department of Energy Isotope Program is the world leader in quality, purity, and availability of the most sought after and rare isotopes.
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Cathy Sue Cutler, PhD, FSNMMI, Chair of the Isotope Research and Production Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been appointed as the president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
The American Council of Engineering Companies of New York recently recognized the upgrades to the AP Hot Cells at BNL with a Platinum Award in the Studies & Research Category at the 2024 Engineering Excellence Awards Gala in New York City.
The radioisotope Fe-59 is commonly used in biomedical research including in vitro and in vivo analyses of the cell and systemic metabolism in human health and disease, such as iron uptake and excretion studies. Iron-59 has a half-life of 44.5 days and bet
DOE Isotope Program Highlights
Transforming Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment with Cerium/Lanthanum-134
Researchers advance the use of cerium/lanthanum-134 for medical scans in actinium-225 cancer therapy.
Scientists Identify an Alternative System for Producing the Medical Isotope Scandium-44
An easy-to-use system can increase the availability of PET imaging agents to more patients.
Capturing the Chemistry of Radium-223 for Cancer Treatment
Until now, there have been few efforts to get information on how radium binds with known chelators.
Researchers Improve Production for Short-Lived Scandium Radioisotopes
Hard to produce in quantities and purities appropriate for human use, scandium radioisotopes have potential for imaging cancer.
