Researchers improve production for short-lived scandium radioisotopes
Summary of the production process for radioisotopes of scandium using recyclable, enriched calcium. Credit: Jonathan Engle, University of Wisconsin Scandium radioisotopes are potentially useful for medical imaging such as positron emission tomography (PET) scans. However, health care providers do not currently use these isotopes to image cancer because they are difficult to produce in the amounts and…