Global Isotope Crisis: How Does It Affect My Healthcare?
7:00 PM on Wednesday Mar. 31st, 2010
Room 302, Azrieli Theatre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive
7:00 PM on Wednesday Mar. 31st, 2010
Room 302, Azrieli Theatre, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive
The Department of Physics at Carleton University is sponsoring a public lecture entitled The Global Isotope Crisis: How Does It Affect My Healthcare? Richard Wassenaar, medical physicist, nuclear medicine, with The Ottawa Hospital and adjunct physics professor and Carleton alumnus and Paul Schaffer, deputy head, nuclear medicine, with TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, will speak on Wednesday, March 31 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Room 302, Azrieli Theatre.
The lecture will focus on the importance of medical isotopes in our health care, the reasons for the current isotope crisis and the answers Canadian scientists are seeking to move nuclear medicine forward. The presentation will introduce the science behind isotope production, radiotracer synthesis and image acquisition and discuss the alternative technologies being developed for isotope production.
Admission is free. There is also free parking in lot 1 at Carleton.
The lecture will focus on the importance of medical isotopes in our health care, the reasons for the current isotope crisis and the answers Canadian scientists are seeking to move nuclear medicine forward. The presentation will introduce the science behind isotope production, radiotracer synthesis and image acquisition and discuss the alternative technologies being developed for isotope production.
Admission is free. There is also free parking in lot 1 at Carleton.