US 12,283,387 B2
Method and system for producing isotopes
James T. Harvey, Naperville, IL (US); Rimas S. Milunas, Madison, WI (US); Daniel E. Peltier, Sun Prairie, WI (US); Sarah M. Burns, Madison, WI (US); James L. McCarter, Waunakee, WI (US); Tomas A. Montenegro, Madison, WI (US); Jason M. Schlough, Madison, WI (US); Maxwell J. Brennan, Madison, WI (US); and Quintin G. Schiller, Madison, WI (US)
Assigned to Northstar Medical Technologies, LLC, Beloit, WI (US)
Filed by NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC, Beloit, WI (US)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/404,782.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/086,488, filed on Oct. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/066,897, filed on Aug. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0084707 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G21G 1/10 (2006.01); G21G 1/12 (2006.01); G21K 5/04 (2006.01); G21K 5/08 (2006.01); H05H 6/00 (2006.01)
CPC G21G 1/10 (2013.01) [G21G 1/12 (2013.01); G21K 5/04 (2013.01); G21K 5/08 (2013.01); H05H 6/00 (2013.01); H05H 2277/116 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for producing radioisotopes comprising:
a first radiation zone designed to house a first electron accelerator configured to engage a first beamline designed to accept a first electron beam extending along a first axis from the first accelerator;
a second radiation zone designed to house a second electron accelerator configured to engage a second beamline designed to accept a second electron beam extending along a second axis from the second accelerator, wherein the first axis and the second axis are parallel; and
a third radiation zone designed to house a target assembly configured to house a target isotope to be transmuted into a product isotope;
wherein the first beamline includes a first beamline subsystem configured to bend the first electron beam at a first angle such that the first beamline engages the target assembly from a first direction,
wherein the second beamline includes a second beamline subsystem configured to bend the second electron beam at a second angle such that the second beamline engages the target assembly from a second direction that is opposite the first direction.