UAB Cyclotron (IMAGE)

University of Alabama at Birmingham

UAB Cyclotron

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This is a look inside UAB's Cyclotron, which makes radioactive molecular imaging agents for nuclear medicine using a type of particle accelerator that moves protons, a kind of charged particle, along a spiral path to strike a material to produce radioisotopes.

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