Todd Peterson, PhD, Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, has received an S10 Shared Instrumentation Grant from the National Institutes of Health for $609,250, funding his project, “Automated Multi-run Carbon-11 Radiosynthesis System.”
The funding will be used to purchase a set of radiosynthesis modules and a hot cell in which to house them. The system will be located in the Radiochemistry Core Laboratory. “This will update and significantly expand the Core’s capability for producing Carbon-11 labeled radiotracers,” Dr. Peterson says. “We will now be able to produce up to three Carbon-11 radiotracers on a single day. We expect this to be of particular interest to a number of investigators in neurology, psychiatry, and the Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center who utilize [11C]PiB for amyloid imaging in their studies of neurodegenerative diseases.”
