life sciences

Both radionuclides and radiation generators are essential to a wide variety of applications in medicine, where they are used in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses. There are extensive applications involving radiation within the biomedical and life sciences research including:

• The use of radiotracers such as tritium, carbon-14, phosphorus-32 and iodine-125 which are used extensively for tracer work to enable accurate assessment of the biochemical behaviour of substances.
• The use of sealed sources, x-ray generators and linear accelerators for irradiation and diagnostics research.
• cyclotron facilities for the production of positron emission tomography (PET) isotopes such as fluorine-18 and oxygen-18 for PET diagnostics and research.
• the use and generation of radionuclides used nuclear medicine for imaging purposes.

Aurora has a significant number of clients who work in the life sciences industry including large blue chip pharmaceutical and life sciences research organizations. We have significant experience of the practical, technical and regulatory aspects of the above uses of radioactive material in this sector and as such we are able to provide best practice advice and services to our clients.