Willem Kleeven

Development of the Cyclone® Kiube: A Compact, High Performance and Self-Shielded Cyclotron for Radioisotope Production

About 15 months ago, at IBA, we have launched the design, construction, tests and industrialization of an innovative isochronous cyclotron for PET isotope production (patent applications pending). The design has been optimized for cost effectiveness, compactness, ease of maintenance, activation reduction and high performances, with a particular emphasis on its application on market. Multiple target stations can be placed around the vacuum chamber. An innovative extraction method (patent applications pending) has been designed which allows to obtain the same extracted beam sizes and properties on the target window independent of the target position. INTRODUCTION This isochronous cyclotron for PET radioisotope production produces fixed energy 18MeV proton beam and is called the Cyclone® KIUBE, Figure 1. Today, three versions are available producing 100μA, 150μA and 180μA on target and the option with selfshielding is also available. Figure 1: CYCLONE® KIUBE.