2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

The Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences: Developing a multi-use cyclotron facility

17 Jun 2015, 14:45

30m

CCIS L1-047 (University of Alberta)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM) W2-9 General Instrumentation and Measurement Physics (DIMP) / Physique générale des instruments et mesures (DPIM)

Speaker

Sara Ho (Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences)

Description

The Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (Fedoruk Centre) is in the process of commissioning the Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences as a multidisciplinary research and commercial radiopharmaceutical production facility. At the heart of the facility is a multipurpose 24 MeV cyclotron capable of producing a number of radioisotopes for use in research in humans, animals and plants as well as to supply clinical needs for PET-CT scans. Envisioned as a user facility, the Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences enables the growth of the nuclear imaging research community in Saskatchewan and beyond in fields ranging from the development of novel molecular imaging probes to detector design. This paper provides an overview of the vision and structure of the Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences and outlines the opportunities for research collaboration provided by the facility and the Fedoruk Centre.