Medical Isotope Articles & Analysis
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For just one example, consider supply-chain fluctuations in medical isotopes that are used daily in tens of thousands of procedures. ...
Since 2007, as reactor shutdowns have occurred, nuclear medicine practitioners throughout North America and Europe, in particular, have needed to ration medical isotopes, cancel or postpone procedures, and pay higher costs for medical isotopes. ...
(OTC PINK: UCLE) being designated as the exclusive manufacturer of the MIFTEC isotope generators, and the failing state of the current medical isotope production facilities, the timing of this announcement for the company could not be better. ...
Molybdenum then decays to the short-lived Technetium-99m (tc-99m) and other isotopes, which are used to spotlight a wide variety of medical issues. ...
These utilize its Staged Z-Pinch fusion technique to produce a high number of neutrons, which can then be used to create medical isotopes. “One of the reasons that we’re so excited to be constructing this agreement is that MIFTI and MIFTEC have developed a procedure for producing a large flux of neutrons from a very small footprint,” Robert I. ...