GE Healthcare TRACERcenter - Manual (Page 5)

GE chemistry synthesizers
QC equipment
Radiation monitoring
Hotcells and fume hoods
Patient Prep Lab
Shielding and lead containers
PETtrace
cyclotrons
Dispensing systems
Customize
your PET center
with our full support
every step of the way.
Understanding disease
begins in the production lab.
Producing PET tracers requires sophisticated laboratories with a wide range of advanced equipment. With TRACERcenter, we
can help simply the process by custom-designing a tracer-production facility to meet your specific needs.
The result: a solution that enables compliance with GMP guidelines, to help ensure that the radiotracers you produce are of the
highest quality, offering maximum safety and efficacy.
While our PETtrace cyclotron series sets
the pace for production flexibility and
reliability today, we are committed to
providing you with an affordable upgrade
path that helps protect your investment
for many years to come.
PETtrace cyclotrons
Your hotcell and fume hood requirements
will depend in part on whether you’re using
the equipment for research, distribution or
in-house production. That’s why we offer a
complete selection of products to meet
your requirements while addressing both
radioprotection safety and GMP guidelines.
Every single one is compatible with, or
configurable to, the full line of GE
Healthcare chemistry synthesizers.
Hotcells and fume hoods
Whether your tracers start from
18 F-fluoride, 18 F-F
2
or 11 C-carbon dioxide or
methane, you’ll find just the right
synthesizer for your production and
research needs within the GE FASTlab and
TRACERlab* families.
GE chemistry synthesizers
When it comes to dispensing and
fractionating the patient dose, accuracy
and efficiency are key. Whatever your
preferences – vial or syringe delivery,
automatic or manual operation –
TRACERcenter will configure the best
solution for your facility.
Dispensing systems
Designing a quality control lab is one of
the most complicated tasks associated
with tracer production, in part because it
requires integrating many different
technologies from many different
vendors. But it’s no problem for the
experts at TRACERcenter – nor is adhering
to regional regulatory guidelines along
the way.
QC equipment
Radiation monitoring is critical to
safeguarding personnel and patients in
any PET facility. Count on TRACERcenter
to provide you with all the necessary
technology, equipment, and guidance to
help you make yours the safest possible
environment.
Radiation monitoring
Reducing operator exposure to
radioactive material is always a priority
for a tracer-production facility. This is the
reason TRACERcenter offers such a wide
range of solutions, from shielded
workbenches to lead containers.
Shielding and lead containers
Time is important in any imaging facility. But nowhere is it more important than
in a PET center, where radiopharmaceuticals’ short half-lives combine with tight
scanner scheduling to make efficiency critical.
One excellent solution: the TRACERcenter Patient Prep Lab, designed and
equipped to help you manage virtually any patient load with confidence and ease.
Patient Prep Lab
There’s nothing simple about establishing an in-house PET tracer-production and
imaging center. It mandates expertise in disciplines from siting and
pharmaceutical production to handling radioactive substances and licensing. It
also mandates a major investment in multiple technologies.
Fortunately, TRACERcenter offers you all the expertise you need to help you
establish a successful PET program; all the technology; and all the step-by-step
support you want to bring your PET facility to life.
Among the tools:
Site-readiness and project - management support.
Carefully selected, qualified equipment with the requisite installation -and
operation - qualification (IQ/OQ) protocols.
The documentation (Standard Operating Procedures, or SOP) needed to operate
a facility under GMP guidelines.
On-site training, provided by GMP specialists, on performing GMP and FDG
process qualification and validation (PQ/PV).