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The CERN-MEDICIS facility aims to produce emerging medical radionuclides for the theranostics approach in nuclear medicine with mass separation of ion beams. To enhance the radioisotope yield and purity of collected samples, the resonance ionization laser ion source MELISSA was constructed, and provided the first laser ions at the facility in 2019. Several operational tests were accomplished to investigate its performance in preparation for the upcoming production of terbium radioisotopes, which are of particular interest for medical applications.
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Open Access funding provided by Projekt DEAL. We would like to acknowledge the help and assistance from the whole MEDICIS collaboration; from CERN-ISOLDE Technical and Physical groups. This research project has been supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Fellowship of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme under contract number 642889 MEDICIS-PROMED; by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the consecutive projects 05P12UMCIA and 05P15UMCIA; by the Research Foundation Flanders FWO (Belgium) and by a KU Leuven START grant.
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Gadelshin, V.M., Wilkins, S., Fedosseev, V.N. et al. First laser ions at the CERN-MEDICIS facility. Hyperfine Interact 241, 55 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-020-01718-y
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