Carbon-11 is commonly used in positron emission tomography (PET). It has a short half life of 20.4 minutes. This isotope is mostly used in-house worldwide for brain imaging studies.
Nirta® Gas target
Proton bombardment of nitrogen gas causes the 14N(p,α)11C nuclear reaction.
2 Gas Target available:
Carbon 11 chemistry module
Diverse solutions can be used for the synthesis of a wide range of 11C labelled molecules: PIB, Acetate, Choline, Methionine, Raclopride,…
Nirta® Gas target
Proton bombardment of nitrogen gas causes the 14N(p,α)11C nuclear reaction.
2 Gas Target available:
Carbon 11 chemistry module
Diverse solutions can be used for the synthesis of a wide range of 11C labelled molecules: PIB, Acetate, Choline, Methionine, Raclopride,…
Gameiro1, Cristiana; Bormans2, Guy; Abrunhosa3, Antero; 4Luurtsema, G. and Elsinga4,Philip
1 IBA-Ion Beam applications SA/BE; 2 PET Center, University of Leuven/BE; 3 ICNAS, University of Coimbra/PT; 4 Medical Imaging Centre, University of Groningen/NL.
M. Kiselev, B. Lambert, Vernal Richards, W.Skarupa, M. Wardach, J. Zehner, S. Ermolaev, B. Zhuikov
Simone Manenti1,2, Francesco Broggi2, Riccardo Calandrino3, Flavia Groppi1,2 1 Department of Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 2 INFN/Milano, Milano, Italy 3 Medical Physics, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy