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Medical Cyclotrons Market – Overview
Medical cyclotron is type of particle accelerator used in diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease such as
cancer, cardiovascular disease, and others. Cyclotron comprises a magnet and high electrical voltage, which
accelerates charged particles in a spiral motion. The particles collides with a target to produce radioactive isotope
due to nuclear reaction. Therefore, medical cyclotron can also be termed as an isotope producing machine.
These isotopes are further combined with chemical compounds (mostly glucose) to create injectable radioactive
tracers that are used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans and other diagnostic techniques. A PET scan
involves injecting a radioactive tracer into the patient’s body. Radiologists utilizes PET imaging techniques to
detect the presence of radioactive tracer at specific sites in the body. Cancerous cells use this isotope with
glucose as source of energy when PET scan is used in cancer diagnostics. Fast growing cancer cells appear as a
glow in images taken by PET scan thereby confirming presence of cancerous cells at the affected site.
Radioactive isotopes have short half-life (e.g. Flourine-18 has a half-life of about 110 minutes) that results in
immediate decay after their production. Therefore many research and large diagnostic facilities possess
assembled in-house medical cyclotron to produce radioactive isotopes for various medical applications.
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