Cyclotron – it sounds like a character from a science fiction film. It’s actually a particle accelerator, a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to very high speeds and ...

Leading distributor of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies Cardinal Health (CAH) recently revealed at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 59th Annual Meeting that it intends to inaugurate three ...

Twelve years ago, Portugal’s University of Coimbra invested in the country’s first cyclotron, a particle accelerator to produce radioisotopes for medical drugs known as radiopharmaceuticals.

The most widely used medical radioisotope, Technetium-99m (Tc-99m), is essential for an estimated 70,000 medical imaging procedures that take place daily around the world. Aging reactors, production ...

Washington, D.C., Jan. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cyclotrons have fundamentally transformed nuclear medicine and cancer therapy over the past decade, with major milestones driven by Best ABT, Best ...

The medical isotope technetium-99m (Tc-99m) could be made in hospitals rather than nuclear reactors. That is the conclusion of researchers in Canada, who have done theoretical modelling of how the ...

Scientists in Canada are the first to make commercial quantities of the medical isotope technetium-99m using medical cyclotrons. The material is currently made in just a few ageing nuclear reactors ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on June 10 that Canada would be getting out of the business of medical isotope production, as the federal government plans to spin off Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.'s ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Linear accelerators (also called linacs), cyclotrons, and synchrotrons are some of the most complex and expensive tools ...

OTTAWA, Ontario & VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Best Cyclotron Systems, Inc. (BCSI) and Best Theratronics Limited (BTL), both members of TeamBest Companies, announce a range of ...

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Since 1982, particle physicists have sojourned every so often in the fresh mountain air of Snowmass, Colorado, to dream up successive generations of particle accelerators. Budgetary restrictions mean ...