Production of 68Ga on High Current Cyclotron Solid Target

Gallium-68 (68Ga) is a radioactive isotope that undergoes a decay process that emits gamma rays suitable for an imaging technique called Positron Emission Tomography (PET). The 68Ga is attached to molecule which targets the isotope to specific types of cancer such as prostate and neuroendocrine. With a relatively short half-life, it means that half of the available activity decays every 68 minutes, which necessitates a method to make the isotope close to the PET scanner. Current methods for obtaining 68Ga rely on a device called a generator which is an expensive and inefficient way to obtain 68Ga. This project seeks to develop a method to make large amounts of 68Ga using a type of particle accelerator called a cyclotron. Our group has previously developed a solid target station to produce a different isotope, which will be adapted to produce 68Ga. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Kovacs

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Partner:

ARTMS

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Lawson Health Research Institute

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