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Isotopes Research and Production Department
Created on May 17, 2010.

Main objectives and activities:

studying the properties of medical isotopes and their application needs;
studying the methods of production of medical isotopes, in particular accelerator methods;
development of the methodologies for the obtaining of medical isotopes in the beams of electron accelerators;
development of the methods of extracting the medical isotopes from irradiated material;
development of the methods of controlling parameters of the obtained isotopes;
Development of the methodologies for the obtaining of medical isotopes in the proton beams of the C18 cyclotron;
transferring of the methods of obtaining, extracting, and controlling parameters of medical isotopes onto the cyclotron option;
pilot production of medical isotopes in the beam of C18, improvement of methods and technologies for:

making and processing of targets before irradiation;
evacuation and relocation of targets;
chemical treatment of targets before extraction of the final product from the irradiated material;
product quality control;
restoration of metallic Molybdenum.

development of the methods of medical instrumentation, including the usage of high-tech CCD matrices;
the use of radiation technologies for sterilization of medical instruments and modification of materials;
the use of cryogenic technologies in the production and extraction of isotopes.

THE DEPARTMENT NEWS

10.06.2016
CONGRATULATIONS!
On May 31, 2016 a PhD student of isotope department Gevorg HARUTYUNYAN successfully defended his PhD thesis titled:"ACCELERATOR METHOD OF PRODUCING TECHNETIUM 99M – TECHNOLOGY OF PREPARATION AND PROCESSING OF THE TARGET AND THE BEAM CONTROL"
We wish You new successes, Gevorg!!!

12.04.2016
ANNOUNCEMENT
YerPhI, Hall of Seminars
April 19, 11:00
Test of the PhD thesis "ACCELERATOR METHOD OF PRODUCING TECHNETIUM 99M – TECHNOLOGY OF PREPARATION AND PROCESSING OF THE TARGET AND THE BEAM CONTROL"
by GEVORG HARUTYUNYAN,
employee of the Isotopes Research and Production Department.

27.01.2016
"INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROSPECTS OF COOPERATION OF STATES - CIS MEMBERS IN THE FIELD OF PRODUCTION, USE, AND PROMOTION OF ISOTOPE PRODUCTS"

2015

10.03.2015
WORKSHOPS
In March 13 at 15:00 in the seminar-room of isotopes department (ch. 112) the talk titled
"TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHODS FOR NEUTRONS ENERGY MEASUREMENT ON EXPERIMENTS UNDER C18 CYCLOTRON BEAM (review and proposal)"
Speaker - Albert Avetisyan

26.01.2015
REPORT on the innovative project "Creating a device for remote handling irradiated targets" (Armenian language)

13.01.2015
"Annual Report of the Department of Research and Production Isotope" (Armenian language)

2014

25.04.2014
PRESS RELEASE
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) supports producing of medical isotopes in Alikhanyan national lab (Yerevan Physics Institute)"

17.03.2014
WORKSHOPS
In March 18 at 15:00 in the seminar-room of isotopes department (ch. 112) the talk titled
"TECHNOLOGY FOR PRODUCING DIRECT ^99mTc proton beam from the cyclotron. TECHNOLOGY OF TARGET"
Speaker - Albert Avetisyan

29.01.2014
WORKSHOPS
In January 30 at 15:00 in the seminar-room of isotopes department (ch. 112) the talk titled
"TECHNOLOGY OF ISOTOPE ¹²³I electron beam - based on the Dubna experiments have"
Speaker - Nikolay DOBROVOLSKI

2013

03.12.2013
ANNOUNCEMENT
ICTP-IAEA Sandwich Training Educational Programme
"The Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP) aims at offering fellowship opportunities to Ph.D. students from developing countries in the fields of physics and mathematics...."

Deadlines to submit applications are:

15 February
15 August

November

08.11.2013
ANNOUNCEMENT
On November 12 at 15:00 in the seminar-room of isotopes department (ch. 112) the talk titled
"^99mTc direct production technology using proton beam from cyclotron"
Proceedings of 2nd CRP meeting if IAEA in Padova (Italy)
Speaker - A. Avetisyan.

October

16.10.2013
Seminar for Young Scientists, Postgraduate Students and Undergraduates
On October 17 at 15:00 in the YerPHI seminar hall, 3-rd floor
Dr. Thomas J. RUTH
"Production of radionuclides for science and medicine with a low energy cyclotron"

14.10.2013
On October 15 at 11:00 in the seminar-room (building 22)
Dr. Thomas J. RUTH
"World Medical Isotope Crisis: How did this happen and where are we now?"

June

18.06.2013
ANNOUNCEMENT
On June 20 at 16:00 in the seminar-room of isotopes department (ch. 112) the talk titled
"ISOTOPES APPLICATION FOR MEDICINE"
will be presented.
Speaker - Gevork Harutyunyan

14.06.2013
CONGRATULATIONS!
On June 7, 2013 a PhD student of isotope department Ruben DALLAKYAN successfully defended his PhD thesis titled: "The Investigation of Photonuclear Reactions under 40 MeV Energy Beam of YerPhI Linear Electron Accelerator ".
We wish You new successes, Ruben!!!

May

29.05.2013
Educational seminars for young scientists of AANL

24.05.2013
ANNOUNCEMENT
On June 7, 2013 the PhD thesis of co-worker of the Isotopes Department Rouben Dallaqyan will be defended. The author's Ph.D. thesis can be found on this site.

21.05.2013
CONGRATULATIONS!
Master student of Yerevan State University - trainee of the Isotopes Department of YerPhI Gevork Harutyunyan defended his master thesis titled "Gamma-scanner for radiology purity testing of medicine intended radioisotopes".
Rating - 20 points.
Scientific supervisor - head the Isotopes Department Dr. Albert Avetisyan.

Master student of Yerevan State University - trainee of the Isotopes Department of YerPhI Ani Movsisyan defended her master thesis titled "Investigation of opportunity of ^99mTc isotope direct production under С18 cyclotron proton beam".
Rating - 19 points.
Scientific supervisor - head of the Isotopes Department Dr. Albert Avetisyan.

April

15.04.2013
The Isotopes Research and Production Department WEB site was launched - "ISOTOPE".
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WORKSHOPS

11.09.2014
LECTURE "RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION OF THE MEDICAL ISOTOPES"and LABORATORY RESEARCH "THE RADIOCHEMICAL PURITY MEASUREMENTS" for students from Physics, Radiophysics and other faculties
Speaker - Ruben DALLAKYAN
Laboratory assistant: Gevorg Harutyunyan, Gohar Avdalyan, Sveta Margaryan, Nora Harutyunyan

30.01.2014
Workshop: "TECHNOLOGY OF ISOTOPE ¹²³I electron beam - based on the Dubna experiments have"
Speaker - Nikolay DOBROVOLSKI