PRODUCTION OF O-15, N-13 AND C-11 AND OF THEIR LOW-MOLECULAR WEIGHT DERIVATIVES FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

The production and the medical use of the short-lived radioisotopes of the 3 major elements of the biosphere, 13N, 11C and 15O, require the vicinity of a cyclotron, of radiochemistry laboratories and of a suitably equipped medical unit. The authors describe and discuss the methodological and practical aspects of the routine, high efficiency, production of these gases, with the specifications that result from their medical use. © 1979.