Radiopharmaceuticals Production and Research Center at Heavy Ion Laboratory of University of Warsaw

J. Choiński, K. Kilian, P.J. Napiorkowski, M. Pęgier, A. Sentkowska, A. Stolarz, A. Trzcińska Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

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For over twenty years there has been a constant trend for scientific research to be applied in everyday life and thus raise the standard of living and improve the quality of life of ordinary citizens. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Heavy Ion Laboratory, in cooperation with the Nuclear Medicine Department of the Independent Public Central Clinical Hospital of the Warsaw Medical University at Banacha Street, has undertaken joint actions to introduce in Poland the diagnostic tests commonly known as positron emission tomography scans. This article presents a brief history of the establishment of the Radiopharmaceuticals Production and Research Center together with its equipment and research work.

DOI:10.12693/APhysPolA.139.413 topics: radioisotopes, radiopharmaceuticals, cyclotron, FDG