NIST researchers, collaborating with an Ohio-based nuclear medicine company called RadQual, have turned to germanium-68 as a calibration surrogate for fluorine-18. This germanium isotope is much ...

Fluorine-18 is a popular tracer for revealing cancers and other biological targets in PET scans. Other researchers in Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division and Biomedical Isotope Facility, and ...

Combining two techniques, analytical chemists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have become the first to detect fluorine and different isotopes of uranium in a single ...

MSU facility creates isotopes of elements typically unseen on Earth. ... An isotope of the element fluorine, known as Fluorine-18, is frequently used in medical PET scans.

For instance, if there were isotopes of fluorine that had mass numbers of 18, 19, and 20, then you could go build a UF6 molecule and one of its fluorine's might be 18, and another would be 20 and ...

Ritter said he set out to address the largest challenge with PET: getting the isotope fluorine-18 to bond with organic molecules, which are carbon-based.

Fluorine-18 is a popular tracer for revealing cancers and other biological targets in PET scans. Other researchers in Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division and Biomedical Isotope Facility, and ...

Broadway stars have understudies. Now, an increasingly popular radioactive isotope has its own stand-in. Developed in part by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the ...