According to a new comprehensive report from The Insight Partners, the global technetium-99m market is witnessing substantial ...

Producing technetium isotopes with a neutron generator “We realized that there might be some out-of-the-box thinking to find ways to increase yield. Instead of having a larger pile, use different ...

A Canadian nuclear reactor that normally supplies about a third of the world’s technetium-99m for medical imaging came back online this week after a 15-month shutdown for repairs that severely ...

Manufacturers supply this molybdenum to hospitals secured in rods. A hospital can ‘harvest’ the technetium-99m isotope from a rod for a week as the molybdeen-99 slowly decays into technetium-99m." ...

Scientists have made an important breakthrough in the race to find a viable replacement for supply of technetium-99m, an important isotope produced by Canada's Chalk River reactor.

The isotope is radioactive, and throws off x-rays from inside a person’s body. X-rays go through flesh like it’s not even there, so the technetium 99m inside a person is measurable from ...

Technetium-99m is useful for medical imaging because it emits only gamma rays and can be incorporated into a number of different molecules that target different types of tissue in the body. Today it ...

Little of the isotope is made in the United States. Hospitals here typically import an isotope called molybdenum-99 from Europe, South Africa and Australia, which becomes technetium-99m when it ...

The isotope, technetium 99, is used to measure blood flow in the heart and to help diagnose bone and breast cancers. Almost two-thirds of the world’s supply comes from two reactors; ...

About 50,000 times a day, U.S. hospitals perform diagnostic procedures using technetium-99m, a radioactive isotope that enables high-quality imaging for bone scans and functional studies of the ...

The new isotope, uranium-241, has 92 protons (as all uranium isotopes do) and 149 neutrons, making it the first new neutron-rich isotope of uranium discovered since 1979.