PPPL Inventors Honored for Device That Creates Medical Isotope Vital for Diagnosing Diseases
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 13:31
in Physics & Chemistry
A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has won the 2016 Edison Patent Award for inventing an on-demand method to create a badly needed isotope used routinely in medical imaging devices to diagnose diseases such as cancer and heart disease.