%0 Journal Article
%T CERN-MEDICIS: A unique facility for the production of radionuclides for medical research
%I JACoW Publishing
%P 1071-1074 pages, 0.73 MB
%* Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
%U https://jacow.org/ipac2025/doi/jacow-ipac2025-tupb047
%X The MEDICIS facility is a unique facility located at CERN, dedicated to the production of non-conventional radionuclides for research and development in imaging, diagnostics and radiation therapy, and based on offline mass separation. It exploits a classified area for handling of highly radioactive open sources, a dedicated isotope separator beam line, a target irradiation station at the 1.4 GeV Proton Synchroton Booster (PSB) and receives activated targets from external institutes during CERN Long Shut-Downs. After collection, the batch is prepared to be dispatched to a research center. Since its commissioning in December 2017, the facility has provided novel radionuclides such as Ba-128, Tb-155, Sm-153, Tm-165 Ra-224/Pb-212 and Ra-225/Ac-225 with high specific activity, some for the first time, to research institutes part of the collaboration. CERN-MEDICIS has advanced significantly to reach mature processes to translate into clinical application for the most promising radionuclides.
%G en
%A Bernerd,Cyril
%A Crepieux,Bernard
%A Duchemin,Charlotte
%A Elle,Manikanta
%A Gilardoni,Simone
%A Heinke,Reinhard
%A Kalnina,Patricija
%A Lambert,Laura
%A Mamis,Edgars
%A Mancheva,Ralitsa
%A Rossel,Ralf
%A Rothe,Sebastian
%A Stora,Thierry
%A Thiboud,Julien
%A Vollaire,Joachim
%E Lin,Ming-Chyuan
%E Sato,Yoichi
%E Huang,Jui-Che
%E Button,David
%E Chuang,Ping-Shun
%D 05 November 2025
%K Accelerator Physics
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