Press Releases
More TRIUMF press releases can be found over at TRIUMF's Newwise Newsroom and in the lab's press release archive.
Press releases related to CycloMed99:
- NRCan-ITAP Program (2013-2016)
- NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize Honours CycloMed99 Team (Feb 17, 2015)
- Canadian Team Demonstrates Solution to Medical Isotope Crisis (Jan 5, 2015)
- Canadian Team Reaches Next Milestone in Addressing Medical-Isotope Crisis (June 9, 2014)
- World Record Achieved for Cyclotron Production of Tc-99m (Jun 9, 2013)
- NRCan Funding Announcement press release (Feb 28, 2013)
- World record announcement: CycloMed99 produces 10 Curies of Tc-99m in a 6 hour overnight shift (Feb 28, 2013)
- NRCan-NISP Program (2011-2012)
- CycloMed99 News Release announcing success at the international AAAS meeting in Vancouver, BC (Feb 20, 2012)
- Dr. Thomas J. Ruth's remarks at NRCan-NISP announcement in Saskatoon, SK (Jan 24, 2011)
- CylcoMed99 News Release about NRCan-NISP funding (Jan 24, 2011)
- NSERC/CIHR Program (2009-2011)
Selected Media Coverage
- Popular Science (Jun 11, 2013)
- CBC "The National" [TV] (Jun 9, 2013)
- Huffington Post (Jun 9, 2013)
- Victoria Times Colonist (Jun 9, 2013)
- Vancouver Sun [Page 1] (Jun 9, 2013)
- Nature [blog] (Jun 9, 2013)
- CNW Newswire (Jun 9, 2013)
- Al Jazeera video news (Jul 20, 2012)
- Nature Magazine (Feb 21, 2012)
- Reuters Global News Services (Feb 21, 2012)
- Globe & Mail (Feb 20, 2012)
- Physics World (UK) (Feb 20, 2012)
- Canada @ AAAS website
Reports and Publications
- "The Medical Isotope Crisis, How We Got Here and Where We Are Going" by Tom Ruth, published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology (Nov 13, 2014)
- Paper in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, "Cross-Linked Polyethylene Glycol Beads to Separate 99mTc-Pertechnetate from Low-Specific-Activity Molybdenum" (Oct 20, 2014)
- "Direct Production of Tc-99m via Mo-100(p,2n) on Small Medical Cyclotrons" (Schaffer et al., Aug 2014)
- Article in Physics in Medicine and Biology, "Graphical user interface for yield and dose estimations for cyclotron-produced technetium" (May 30, 2014)
- Article in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, "Implementation of Multi-Curie Production of Tc-99m by conventional medical cyclotrons" (April 10, 2014)
- Radioisotopes: The Medical Testing Crisis (Dec 2013). A feature article in Nature focusing on the predicted serious shortage of medical isotopes in the near-future, as well as the innovative companies are exploring ways to make them without nuclear reactors.
- World-record production of sufficient Tc-99m to supply major urban areas (Jun 9, 2013)
- Article in Physics in Medicine and Biology on dosimetry calculations performed on Tc agents (March 5, 2012)
- Featured article in Physics in Medicine and Biology (Aug 3, 2011)
- Government of Canada Response to the Expert Review Panel Report (PDF, 485 Kb). [31 Mar 2010]
- "Medical Isotopes: What are the alternatives?" CBC News [10 June 2009]
- Report of the Expert Review Panel on Medical Isotope Production (PDF, 1.3 Mb). [30 Nov 2009]
- Expression of Interest submitted to NRCan Expert Panel (31 Jul 2009). Presentation of Zero-Enriched Uranium Mo-99 (ZEUM) technology for accelerator-driven photo-fission production of Mo-99 including schedule and resource requirements for a technology demonstration in 2012.
- Testimony to the House Standing Committee on Natural Resources (16 Jun 2009) [available in French]. Written testimony submitted to the Parliamentary hearing discussing
- "Accelerating production of medical isotopes," Nature Essay by Dr. Thomas J. Ruth. [29 Jan 2009]
- Making Medical Isotopes: Final Report of the Task Force on Alternatives for Medical-Isotope Production (PDF, 1.12 MB), by TRIUMF, AAPS, Inc., and UBC with support from NRCan. [17 Nov 2008]
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Videos
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Tc-99m-MDP SPECT/CT bone scan displaying radio-isotope uptake in a coronal slice of the spine. Courtesy Lawson Health Research Institute. | Tc-99m-MDP SPECT/CT bone scan displaying the uptake of a benign bone tumor in a coronal slice of the pelvis. Courtesy Lawson Health Research Institute. | Tc-99m-MDP SPECT/CT bone scan displaying the uptake of a benign bone tumor in a coronal slice of the left arm. Courtesy Lawson Health Research Institute. | Tc-99m is used in myocardial perfusion imaging (i.e., comparing a 'rest' and 'stress' image to identify ischemia/infarction), avid infarct imaging (to detect damaged myocardial tissue post-MI) and cardiac function studies (to determine how well the heart is pumping via LVEF). |
