Accelerating production of medical isotopes

Thomas Ruth
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Thomas Ruth: Thomas Ruth is a research scientist at TRIUMF and a senior scientist at the British Columbia Cancer Agency, both in Vancouver, Canada. truth@triumf.ca

Nature, 2009, vol. 457, issue 7229, 536-537

Abstract: The global problem of a safe and reliable supply of radioactive isotopes for use in critical hospital procedures can be solved with accelerators, not nuclear reactors, says Thomas Ruth.

Date: 2009
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