Sentences with phrase «isotopes for medical imaging»

The crowd comprising Canada's Natural Resources Committee, including Conservative MPs, say Canada should consider a new reactor to replace the Chalk River facility in order to maintain our domestic capability to produce isotopes for medical imaging and treatment.

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According to the proposed deal, some of the uranium - enrichment centrifuges at the Fordow site would be repurposed to produce isotopes such as molybdenum - 99, which is widely required for medical imaging (see go.nature.com/jafnpt).

Their discovery could aid in the synthesis of new «radiotracers» — chemical compounds that contain a radioactive form, or isotope, of an element — for use with a noninvasive, high - resolution 3 - D medical imaging technology known as PET (positron emission tomography) scanning.