Ceramic targets for radionuclide therapy

At a glance

Project leader : Prof. Dr. Dirk Penner
Project team : Michal Gorbar
Project status : completed
Funding partner : Third party
Project partner : Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG
Contact person : Dirk Penner

Description

Radionuclide therapy is a form of targeted cancer therapy in which specifically effective isotopes with a coordinated half-life and radiation characteristics are brought directly to the site of the tumour, where they can selectively combat the tumour. The Laboratory for Ceramic Materials develops so-called targets, which consist of ceramics of special elements suitable for radiotherapy. The entire production process chain is being optimized to such an extent that in the future a medical product with maximum reliability can be manufactured.

Publications

Gorbar, Michal; Mauchle, Stéphane; Aebi, Patric; Bitterli, Beat; Penner, Dirk,

2022.

Development of Yb2O3-based ceramics for indirect production of 177Lu used in targeted radionuclide therapies.

In:

Ceramics in Europe, Kraków, Poland, 10-14 July 2022.

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