Cyclotron
The Cyclotron
A little about the Cyclotron from the University of PENN website:
“The PET Facility at the University of Pennsylvania in 3 Silverstein has three scanner rooms, a control room, a computer room, hot lab and a blood lab for sampling and counting. The Facility currently has two whole-body PET scanners (Philips Medical Systems, C-PET and Allegro) and a dedicated brain PET scanner (G-PET) which was built at the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with Philips Medical Systems. The Facility has several SUN workstations for data acquisition and analysis, a 68Ge/68Ga generator to provide isotopes for phantom experiments and a dose calibrator. 18F-FDG as well as 11C, 13N and 15O isotopes are provided by the PET Center Cyclotron. The Cyclotron Facility is housed in 5100 sq. ft. of underground space adjacent to the Nursing Education Building in HUP. The space is divided into the cyclotron vault which contains the Japan Steel Works BC 3015 cyclotron (30 MeV) and related equipment, a control room to operate the machine, a research radiochemistry lab, and a clinical GMP lab. The cyclotron can produce about 1 Ci of 18F with a 45 minute bombardment of 22 MeV protons on a 18O-water target, and about the same activity of 11C with a 45 minute bombardment of 22 MeV protons on a nitrogen gas target. 15O is made by continuous bombardment of 11 MeV deuterons on a nitrogen gas target (with 5% hydrogen). The research lab includes three hot cells and two cold chemistry hoods, while the clinical room includes one hot cell and an FDG synthesis unit (CPCU) as well as a cold chemistry fume hood and laminar flow hood. One high pressure liquid chromotography (HPLC) unit and gas chromatograph are available for quality control of radiopharmaceuticals.”
A news clip fro the Philadelphia Busines Journal:
“A 220-ton cyclotron arrived Tuesday morning from Belgium at the University of Pennsylvania in West Philadelphia.
The particle accelerator will be part of the Roberts Proton Therapy Center being built for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
The cyclotron accelerates atoms to near light speeds to create a healing beam of energy that can then be precisely targeted to kill tumors without harming nearby healthy tissue or organs.
Penn officials said the Roberts Proton Therapy Center, scheduled to be completed next summer, will be the largest of its kind in the world and the only cancer treatment center to fully integrate conventional radiology treatment and proton beam therapy.
Pediatric cancers will also be treated at the center under the University of Pennsylvania Health System association with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In addition, Penn has established a relationship with Walter Reed Medical Center that will make the proton therapy technology available to treat U.S. military personnel and veterans.
The proton therapy center will be part of the $232 million Raymond and Ruth Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine Penn is building at 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard.”
About the photo:
A huge crate carrying 110 tons of what will be a cancer-treating proton accelerator arriving at Penn this morning. The oversized load took more than an hour to crawl its way from the Packer Marine Terminal. Mike Levin / Inquirer Staff Photographer
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