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Isotopes for medicine and the life sciences

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:378787
Both radioisotopes and enriched stable isotopes are essential to a wide variety of applications in medicine, where they are used in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses. This report focuses primarily on those medical uses and those in allied life sciences. In addition, other applications of isotopes are discussed; isotopes also find wide parallel uses in research in chemistry, physics, biology, and geosciences, with additional needs existing in the commercial sector. Topic areas include the following: enriched stable isotopes; reactor-produced radionuclides; accelerator-produced radionuclides and a national biomedical tracer facility; public-private partnership models for NBTF; a national isotope policy: proposal for a new way to manage the nation`s isotope resources.
Research Organization:
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC (United States). Board on Engineering Education
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-93ER61702
OSTI ID:
378787
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/61702--2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English