DAE plans to rope in private agencies for Nuclear Medicine says Dr.Jitendra Singh
18 Mar 2021 12:16:02
New Delhi, March 18: As a part of AtmaNirbhar Bharat, the Department of Atomic Energy is planning to rope in private agencies for Nuclear Medicine Union state ministry of Atomic Energy and Space, Dr.Jitendra Singh said.
He said in the written reply to the loksabha, that the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), plans of sharing one of its facilities partially with private agencies for the weekly production of “Column Chromatography Generator Production”.
He further stated, "The Technology for the Production of important radiopharmaceuticals, like 18F-FDB for various cancer imaging and 18F-NaF for bone cancer imaging is available through Technology Transfer."
Giving them information about the initiative taken by the DAE he said, "the 30 MeV Medical Cyclotron at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata is operational and carrying out regular commercial production and delivery of radiopharmaceuticals like FDG (18F) and Sodium Fluoride (18F-NaF) by BRIT. The production of Gallium-68 (68Ga), Gallium-67 (67Ga), Thallium-201 (201Tl) based radiopharmaceuticals have also been done at the Medical Cyclotron Facility of VECC, Kolkata. The 67Ga and 201Tl based radiopharmaceuticals were hitherto imported."
He also informed that BRIT has taken up two projects Advanced Facility for Radio Pharmaceuticals Production (AFRP) and Fission Moly Project (FMP) for the production of medical isotopes on a large scale. Under the AFRP project, BRIT is augmenting I-131 capsule production and I-131 MIBG production for diagnostic & therapeutic application for cancer treatment.
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