Radioisotope target assembly

US9686851B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ABT Molecular Imaging, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ronald Nutt · Miami, US
• David Patton · Flower Mound, US
• Darrell Swicegood · Maryville, US
• John McCracken · Glen Mills, US
• Mark Khachaturian · Boca Raton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 23, 2015
• Grant date: Jun 20, 2017
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G21G1/10
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A target assembly to produce radioisotopes for the synthesis of radiopharmaceuticals. The target assembly includes a target vessel with a target chamber adapted to receive a target material. A thin cover sheet of particle-permeable material covers the target chamber. In a bombardment process, a high-energy particle beam generated by a cyclotron or particle accelerator strikes the thin cover sheet, whereby at least some of the particles from the particle beam penetrate to the target chamber so as to interact with the target material, altering the nuclear makeup of some of the atoms in the target material to produce radioisotopes.