Cyclotron Core Facility

The new London city wide Cyclotron Facility opened in December 2009 and offers the most up to date equipment housed in a 6000 sq ft cGMP specification manufacturing facility. The equipment in the facility includes:

• GE PETtrace 8 cyclotron with proton and deuteron acceleration capability
• cGMP specification class 100 shielded hot cells for production and dispensing
• Dedicated automated chemistry units for producing 18F and 11C radiopharmaceuticals to cGMP specifications
• Availability of 13N ammonia and 15O tracers
• cGMP validated quality control instrumentation
• Synthetic organic chemistry laboratory space

In combination with the PET/CT, PET/MRI, preclinical PET imaging scanners, the cyclotron facility will be available to support a wide variety of city wide research projects including PET imaging applied to oncology, cardiology, neurology, psychology, bioelectromagnetics, and other areas.

To learn more about the Cyclotron, click here.
To learn more about the development of new imaging probes and the production of Positron Emitting Radiopharmaceuticals (PERs) for PET/CT imaging, click here.
To learn more about Imaging research at Lawson, click here.