. "3 Molybdenum-99/Technetium-99m Supply." Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009.
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Medical Isotope Production without Highly Enriched Uranium
FIGURE 3.5 Supply of Mo-99, Tc-99m generators, and Tc-99m to North American markets. Dashed arrows indicate secondary flows of Mo-99 between these producers. The figure does not show other secondary flows of Mo-99 into the North American market.
SUMMARY
This chapter provides a description of the Mo-99 and Tc-99m for medical diagnostic imaging. Several important points of information provided in this chapter are summarized below:
The 2006 global supply of Mo-99 was about 12,000 6-day curies per week. The 2006 supply to the U.S. market was between 5000 and
