Production of radionuclides
SMILES: combine laser ionization and mass separation to select isotopes
07.01.21
SMILES means Mass Separation Coupled with Laser Ionization for Environmental and Healthcare Applications (in French : Séparation en Masse couplée à l'Ionisation Laser pour des applications Environnementales et en Santé). …
Teddy Durand and the Arronax particle injector
09.09.20
Teddy Durand starts his thesis work at the beginning of October 2020 on the development of high intensity techniques in the injection of the Arronax cyclotron. Teddy Durand arrived at …
Chemistry and radiopharmacy
Mattia and the EPS-scandium complex
16.03.21
Is it possible to couple exopolysaccharides (EPS) from marine bacteria with radioactive scandium isotopes for anti-tumour purposes? Mattia Mazza has been trying to answer this question for three years. He …
Astatine at the heart of relativistic effect transfer !
12.03.21
Recent results obtained at the CEISAM laboratory on the astatine chemistry are highlighted on the front cover of the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics journal, dated February 21, 2021. The increase …
Pre-clinical experimentation and clinical research
End of Ipsen clinical trial at 177lu-OPS201
18.08.20
Launched in November 2018 in Nantes, France, the phase 1-2 study evaluating the safety, tolerability and efficacy of 177lu-OPS201 in patients with somatostatin receptor-positive neuroendocrine tumors is nearing completion. The …
A COST Action dedicated to the development of astatine therapy
14.05.20
Resulting from a common will of the CRCINA, Arronax and the University hospital of Nantes, the project submitted by Jean-François Gestin to set up an international clinical network in Europe …
Non-living and living matter exposed to radiations
A new autosampler on the AX-4 line of the Arronax cyclotron
05.02.21
On February 4, a new sample changer developed by the radiolysis team was used for the first time on the line dedicated to research for the Arronax cyclotron. It made …
An emittance-meter at Arronax
22.01.21
Since the beginning of 2021, the GIP ARRONAX is hosting an emittance-meter. This device which measures the density of particles in position and in angle is installed in the injection …
Formation
E-book : « Nuclear Medicine in the context of Personalized Medicine »
25.11.20
An e-book published in "Frontiers in Medicine" brings together a collection of articles dealing with the discipline's contributions to personalized medicine. They come from LabEx IRON, a partner of Arronax …
Some videos to discover medical radioactivity
20.10.20
In these videos from the Mooc "At the heart of medical radioactivity" of the University of Nantes, members of the Arronax Nantes community explain how radioactivity can be used for …