NCITA Nuclear Medicine in Oncology Workshop - Introduction to Radiation and PET Radiotracers

NCITA is a network of medical imaging experts and scientists across nine leading cancer imaging institutions across the UK, and we are building a unified infrastructure for discovery, validation and adoption of cancer imaging biomarkers into clinical trials and the NHS.
On the 27th April 2021, NCITA held a workshop on ‘Nuclear Medicine in Oncology’. The workshop provided a detailed overview of nuclear medicine in oncology, and a mix of researchers, students and managers joined the workshop to learn more about this area.
In the first of five talks, Dr Maite Jauregui-Osoro, NCITA Imaging QA/QC Manager (Imperial College London) gives an ‘Introduction to Radiation and Production of PET Radiotracers (cyclotron)’. Maite covers ionising radiation and the energy spectrum, how radioactivity is measured, types of positron-emitting radionuclides, production of PET radiotracers and the cyclotron, radiopharmaceutical synthesis, protection against radiation and dose monitoring, sources of radiation exposure, and an overview of regulatory bodies.
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