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Can you provide a list of radioisotopes made at ANSTO and their uses?

Technetium-99m   Images the brain, heart, bones, thyroid, salivary glands and blood pool.  Also used for bone disease in diabetic patients. 

Thallium-201   Useful in imaging and localisation of heart blood vessel blockage, which is a primary cause of heart attacks.  Used during stress testing to diagnose blood-starved heart tissue. 

Gallium-67 Citrate   Hodgkin's disease, cancer of lymphatic system, cancer of the lungs, aids in detecting infections and acute inflammatory lesions. 

Iodine-123  Whole body scans and specific brain functions. 

Leukoscan  Diagnostic imaging of bones in diabetic patients. 

Fluorodeoxyglucose  Diagnosis of abnormal glucose metabolism, heart disease, brain foci of epileptic seizures. 

Iodine-131  (therapy) Hyperthyroidism and Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. 

Yttrium   (therapy) Liver cancer. 

Samarium   (palliative - pain suppression) Relief of bone pain and bone scans.