CYCLONE 18/9 + 10/5 USER COMMUNITY
Second workshop
(St. Preusche, C. Dupont, R. Verbruggen, F. Vamecq, G. Bormans)Organizing facilities
The second workshop:
was organized by the K.U. Leuven/Belgium together with IBA/Belgiumheld at Leuven, Belgium, December 10/11 1998
Participants
Since the first workshop at the Rossendorf PET Center/Germany in October 1996 six new members have been added to our user community.39 colleagues of the following facilities took part in the second workshop:
CYCLONE 18/9 facilities:
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
- Universitätsklinikum Essen, Germany
- Geneva University Hospitals (project), Switzerland
- Hadassah Hospital, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
- Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada
- University Hospital of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
- Hospital 'Na Homolce' Prague (under installation), Czech Republic
- Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Germany
- Medizinische Universitätsklinik Ulm, Germany
CYCLONE 10/5 facilities:
- Centre for PET, Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre Heidelberg, Australia
- University of Helsinki, Finland
- K.U. Leuven, Belgium
- PET Centre Toulouse (under installation), France
Manufacturer of CYCLONE 18/9 + 10/5:
- Ion Beam Applications s.a. (IBA), Belgium
Program
Short talks of each facility:- Results and experience of operation, maintenance
- Status of facilities under installation
- Cyclotron operation
- Targetry and chemistry module operation
- Improvement of lifetime of important cyclotron parts
- How to solve problems
- Trouble-shooting
Results
Resulting from discussions (initiated by MNI Montreal) at the first workshop: new IBA stripper version, first reports of experience with these strippersDiscussions to improve the lifetime of several cyclotron parts
Discussion on yield and its reproducability of 18F targets
Presentation of new targets and other soft- and hardware upgrades by IBA
Presentation of the CYCLONE 18/9 + 10/5 USER COMMUNITY in the Internet (members and addresses, messages and information):
https://www.fz-rossendorf.de/pls/rois/Cms?pNid=531
Common brochure with all the reports:
eds: IBA and K.U. Leuven, 1998
IBA PET CYCLONE USERS - second workshop
The third workshop will be organized by The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/The Netherlands in about 2 years