TO THE EDITOR: I was interested to read the article on the medical isotope crisis published
in the December 2014 edition of JNMT (1). The subtitle “How We Got Here and Where We …

TO THE EDITOR: I was interested to read the article on the medical isotope crisis published
in the December 2014 edition of JNMT (1). The subtitle “How We Got Here and Where We …

An SNM task group has been working over the past several months to put together a draft
report of possible new 99Mo suppliers for the US market. The initiation of this project, the …

Many within the nuclear medicine community have long been aware of the ongoing problem
of the isotope shortage. When aging reactors in Canada and other parts of the world are …

Nuclear medicine stands poised to become a leading specialty in the area of cancer
diagnostics and therapeutics, but this dream will become a reality only if nuclear physicians …

This is the 12 th Bad Gastein lecture, a prestigious international series which began in 1982
when Nigel Trott was invited to deliver his lecture entitled “The safe and effective use of …

The new millennium may have arrived, but, from a government relations perspective, this is
a new year with the same old problems. The practice of nuclear medicine depends on many …

On May 18, 2009, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) announced that the 52-year-old
National Research Universal (NRU) reactor at Chalk River was out of service after detection …

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) held the spring meeting of its Advisory
Committee on Medical Uses of Isotopes (ACMUI) on March 7 and 8. The ACMUI typically …

The article focuses on the condition of medical isotope in Canada in 2009. It reveals that the
medical isotope in the country has experienced crisis. It also indicates the plan of GE …