Author: von Bremen, K.
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THPS080 The New Bern Cyclotron Laboratory for Radioisotope Production and Research 3618
 
  • S. Braccini, A. Ereditato
    LHEP, Bern, Switzerland
  • P. Scampoli
    Naples University Federico II, Napoli, Italy
  • K. von Bremen
    SWAN, Bern, Switzerland
  
  A new cy­clotron lab­o­ra­to­ry for ra­dioiso­tope pro­duc­tion and mul­ti-dis­ci­plinary re­search is under con­struc­tion in Bern and will be op­er­a­tional by the end of 2011. A com­mer­cial IBA 18 MeV pro­ton cy­clotron, equipped with a specif­i­cal­ly con­ceived 6 m long ex­ter­nal beam line, end­ing in a sep­a­rate bunker, will pro­vide beams for rou­tine 18-F pro­duc­tion as well as for novel de­tec­tor, ra­di­a­tion bio­physics, ra­dio­pro­tec­tion, ra­dio­chem­istry and ra­dio­phar­ma­cy de­vel­op­ments. The ac­cel­er­a­tor is em­bed­ded into a com­plex build­ing which hosts two physics lab­o­ra­to­ries, four GMP ra­dio­chem­istry and ra­dio­phar­ma­cy lab­o­ra­to­ries, of­fices and two floors for pa­tient treat­ment and clin­i­cal re­search ac­tiv­i­ties. This pro­ject is the re­sult of a suc­cess­ful col­lab­o­ra­tion among the Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal in Bern (In­sel­spi­tal), the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bern and pri­vate in­vestors, aim­ing at the con­sti­tu­tion of a com­bined med­i­cal and re­search cen­ter able to pro­vide the most cut­ting-edge tech­nolo­gies in med­i­cal imag­ing and can­cer ra­di­a­tion ther­a­py. For this pur­pose, the es­tab­lish­ment of a pro­ton ther­a­py cen­ter on the cam­pus of In­sel­spi­tal is in the phase of ad­vanced study.