World Trends in the Application of Accelerators for the Production of Basic Isotopes for Nuclear Medicine

Abstract

The basic isotopes of nuclear medicine presently are 99Mо and 18F. For the production of these isotopes, there was a need to create accelerators to satisfy the needs for isotopes for large countries. For these purposes, electron accelerators are developed using warm and superconducting accelerating structures. It is also assumed to use neutron generators and cyclotrons.