Medical Cylotron produces short lived PET Isotopes ( For example FDG i.e Fluorodeoxyglucose needs to be sent to PET scanners in Hospitals every day to diagnosis Cancer disease of patients so that Patients may get benefit for early stage cancer detection and cancer treatment on time.
Those abbreviations stand for: fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (PET). The role of this procedure is to detect metabolically active malignant lesions including lung cancer, colorectal cancer, lymphoma, melanoma, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, brain cancer and multiple myeloma.
Enriched 018 water used as raw material & media to produce F18 in Cyclotron. This F18 is then transferred to chemistry synthesis module where this F18 is then finally tagged with glucose precursor and final product which is commonly known as fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG ) generated and then FDG filled in vails and syringes for delivery to Hospitals as per demand of respective Hospitals.
The Cyclotron consists of a large Cylindrical Chamber, placed between the poles of a huge electromagnet and used for accelerating charged particles (H- ions) The Chamber is exhausted until a very high Vacuum exists inside H- Ions are fed into the center of the chamber by means of an ion source.
Inside the chamber are two hollow. D-sharped electrodes, calls Dees, Which are connected to a source of very high voltage, oscillating with high Frequency (RF)