GE HealthCare’s on-site cyclotron for PET agent production claims CE Mark

GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) has claimed a European approval for a relatively compact, self-shielded cyclotron designed for the local production of the rapidly decaying isotopes used in PET imaging tracers.

The CE Mark for the MINItrace Magni enables the in-house supply of fluorine-18 — the molecule used to power GE HealthCare’s Flyrcado, Cerianna and Vizamyl agents — as well as the standards of carbon-11, oxygen-15 and nitrogen-13.

At the same time, the company said its PETtrace cyclotron’s solid target platform will expand into copper-64 production for research use, a metal isotope GE HealthCare said could form the basis for future diagnostic and therapeutic agents in areas such as prostate cancer and HER2-positive breast cancer.

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