{"id":58039,"date":"2018-09-26T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=58039"},"modified":"2018-09-26T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:15:28","slug":"medical-cyclotron-facility-cyclone-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/medical-cyclotron-facility-cyclone-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Cyclotron Facility Cyclone-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question- \u201cCyclotrons\u201d are used \u2013<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(a)To produce radioisotopes.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(b)To produce cyclone.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(c)To produce tornedo.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(d)None of the above.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Answer- (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Cyclone-30<\/strong>, the biggest <strong>cyclotron<\/strong> in India for medical application became operational this month.<\/li>\n<li>The cyclone-30 machine situated at Kolkata \u2013based variable energy cyclotron centre under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).<\/li>\n<li>The machine started working for the first time when a 30 MeV beam reached the faraday cup last week.<\/li>\n<li>Beam from this facility was used to produce\u00a0<sup>18<\/sup>F (Fluorine-18 isotope) for the preparation of [<sup>18\u00a0<\/sup>FlFluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a radio-pharmaceutical used by Board of Radiation &amp; Isotope Technology (BRIT).<\/li>\n<li>The addition of Cyclone-30 will increase the availability of radioisotopes and bring down the cost of treatment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cyclotrons<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>They are used to produce radioisotopes for diagnostic and therapeutic use for cancer care.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Radiations from these isotopes are used to destroy cancer cells.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=183536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=183536<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- \u201cCyclotrons\u201d are used \u2013 (a)To produce radioisotopes. (b)To produce cyclone. (c)To produce tornedo. (d)None of the above. Answer- (a) Related facts- Cyclone-30, the biggest cyclotron in India for medical application became operational this month. The cyclone-30 machine situated at Kolkata \u2013based variable energy cyclotron centre under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). The machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-58039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}