Major industrial gas player Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC) has continued to progress with its oxygen-18 enrichment method using oxygen (O2) cryogenic separation technology. Water-18O has multiple uses across the medical industry such as in the production of Fluorine-18, the most widely used radionuclide in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and its use as stable isotope labelled water tracer in metabolic studies.
In a
project undertaken by the company to study the changes in daily energy
expenditure with ageing in humans, further progress was made, the results of
which were published in the Science journal of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in August.
The
study involved the provision of the stable isotope of oxygen-18 to selected participants,
as required by the “doubly labelled water method” used during the research. The
isotope is also needed for stable isotope analysis in biological samples such
as blood, urine and saliva, part of the company’s development of a “gold
standard” for measuring total energy expenditure.
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Nippon Sanso progresses with oxygen-enrichment technology
Source:
gasworld.com