Advanced Cyclotron Systems, Inc. (ACSI) is a company based in

Richmond, British Columbia Richmond is a city in the coastal Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Mainly a suburban city, it occupies almost the entirety of Lulu Island (excluding Queensborough, New Westminster, Queensborough), between the two estuarine dis ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

that supplies and services

cyclotrons A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator invented by Ernest Lawrence in 1929–1930 at the University of California, Berkeley, and patented in 1932. Lawrence, Ernest O. ''Method and apparatus for the acceleration of ions'', filed: January ...

predominantly used for the production of medical isotopes by hospitals for nuclear medicine. The company was a spin-off of the research program at

TRIUMF Triumf may refer to: * TRIUMF, Canada's national particle accelerator centre * 14959 TRIUMF, a minor planet * S-400 Triumf, a Russian anti-aircraft weapon system developed in the 1990s * Triumf Riza (1979–2007), Kosovo police officer and member o ...

. The machines are used for the production of isotopes used in Positron emission tomography (PET), Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) or production of

technetium-99 Technetium-99 (99Tc) is an isotope of technetium that decays with a half-life of 211,000 years to stable ruthenium-99, emitting beta particles, but no gamma rays. It is the most significant long-lived fission product of uranium fission, produci ...

for molecular imaging. ACSI controls approximately half the world market for such machines, Four models of cyclotrons are offered: * ''TR-19'' (14 MeV to 19 MeV) variable energy negative ion cyclotrons * ''TR-24'' (15 to 24 MeV) high current cyclotron used for the production of PET and SPECT isotopes; including one machine installed at the

Université de Sherbrooke The Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS; Quebec English, English: ''University of Sherbrooke'') is a French-language Public university, public research university in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, with a second campus in Longueuil, a suburb on the Mont ...

, * ''TR-FLEX'' (18 MeV up to 30 MeV) high current cyclotron used for PET and SPECT isotopes. * ''TR-30'' (15 MeV to 30 MeV) high current cyclotron used for SPECT isotopes.

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