A Project to manufacture Technetium-99m generators

Technetium-99m (99mTc) is the radionuclide most widely used in nuclear medicine. Its use on diagnostic allows imaging of anatomical structure and provides information on body functions. The radionuclide large demand is due to its desirable nuclear properties, the huge amount of 99mTc-labelled compounds and the existence of generators which make 99mTc available far from any production centre. A radionuclide generator is a system by which the parent, an unstable nucleus, produces by radioactive decay a radioactive daughter of shorter half live. In the case of 99mTc generators the parent is Molybdenum (99Mo) with 66 h half life, while the product 99mTc is 6 h half life (au)