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Medical Imaging

The Genuine Particle: These Cyclotrons Generate Imaging Tracers On-site to Boost Precision Medicine

Christine Gibson
September 07, 2022

Every morning, a charter jet takes off from Helsinki, Finland, bound for Örebro, Sweden. Its cargo: radiotracers. These radioactive compounds are essential for molecular imaging scans, which reveal metabolic processes inside cells. Radiologist and nuclear medicine physician Håkan Geijer and his colleagues at Örebro University Hospital depend on positron emission tomography (PET) scans to diagnose disease — like cancer — and, perhaps most critically, identify the best course of treatment.

Healthcare

Closer To Home: Nuclear Medicine Arrives In Iraq, Helping Doctors Make Earlier Cancer Diagnoses

Sophie Hares
September 08, 2020
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Mark it as a hopeful sign for a country on the mend: Doctors in Iraq seeking to diagnose cancer patients just got their first operational cyclotron.

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Personalized Medicine

From the Mysteries of the Universe to the Riddles of the Body: Inside GE’s Cyclotron Factory

Tomas Kellner
December 26, 2015
When Ernest O. Lawrence invented the cyclotron in 1932, the American physicist used his innovative particle accelerator to probe the structure of the atom. The cyclotron earned Lawrence the Nobel Prize and scientists today still use its offspring to get to the bottom of matter and even the universe itself.
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