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Fundamental Medical Physics Lab
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The lab uses accelerators to measure the reactions that produce radioisotopes used in medicine.
AboutAbout the lab
Measuring data that supports medicine, using accelerators
The Fundamental Medical Physics Lab systematically measures how readily the nuclear reactions occur that produce radioisotopes (RIs) used in radiation therapy and nuclear medicine examinations.
RIs decay over time, and when they do, they emit alpha, beta, and gamma radiation. This property is used in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
To produce the required amount of RI each time, the reaction cross section, which indicates how much RI is produced in a nuclear reaction, is essential basic data.
The research is carried out as international collaboration with researchers at institutions such as RIKEN and the Institute for Nuclear Research in Hungary.
Key terms
- Radioisotope
- An atomic nucleus that decays over time into a different nucleus, emitting radiation when it does so
- Reaction cross section
- A quantity that expresses how likely a target reaction is to occur when atomic nuclei collide
- Nuclear medicine examination
- An examination that measures the radiation emitted by a radioisotope introduced into the body in order to investigate conditions inside the body
ResearchResearch themes
The lab systematically measures the production reaction cross sections of radioisotopes used in medicine, such as in radiation therapy and nuclear medicine examinations. Through international collaboration, it obtains highly reliable data with small uncertainties.
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- ProfessorMasayuki Aikawa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Cyclotron with glowing beam” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Measuring production cross sections of medical RIs: “BOL-detector with legs and cabling” René van Dantzig / CC0 (cropped)
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