The chromatographic generator system for the preparation of sodium pertechnetate (sup 99m Tc) injection at the Malaysian Institute for Nuclear Technology Research (MINT)

Technetium-99m (sup 99m Tc) is currently, the most widely used radioisotope in nuclear medicine and readily available in the form of generators. A radioisotope generator is a system composed of two radionuclides, of which one has a long half-life, which generates the other having a shorter half-life. The two comprise a pair in radioactive equilibrium, where the activity of the system decreases with the half-life of the parent nuclide and the main advantage is the ease of separating the daughter element. A system of this type thus make it possible to use radionuclide with a very short half-life at location remote from the place where it is produced