Technetium-99m generator column assembly and method of use thereof
AssigneeBWXT Isotope Technology Group, Inc.
InventorsThomas Alan Artman, Kenneth Raymond Palazzi
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Abstract
A generator column assembly for the elution of a radioisotope, having a generator column container having a bottom wall defining a flow outlet aperture, an open top end, and a sidewall extending from the open top end to the bottom wall that defines an interior volume having a substantially cylindrical upper volume portion and a substantially cylindrical lower volume portion, the upper volume portion having a diameter that is greater than a diameter of the lower volume portion, and a closure cap assembly including a substantially cylindrical container cap defining a flow inlet aperture, the container cap being configured to be slidably received in the open top end of the generator column container.
Claims20
A generator column assembly for the elution of a radioisotope, comprising:
- a generator column container having a bottom wall defining flow outlet aperture, an open top end, and a sidewall extending from the open top end to the bottom wall that defines an interior volume having a substantially cylindrical upper volume portion and a substantially cylindrical lower volume portion, the upper volume portion having a diameter that is greater than a diameter of the lower volume portion;
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- a closure cap assembly including a substantially cylindrical container cap defining a flow inlet aperture, the container cap being configured to be slidably received in the open top end of the generator column container.
A generator column assembly for the elution of a radioisotope, comprising:
- a generator column container having a bottom wall defining flow outlet aperture, an open top end, and a sidewall extending from the open top end to the bottom wall that defines an interior volume;
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- a closure cap assembly including:
- a substantially cylindrical container cap having a top wall defining a flow inlet aperture and a substantially cylindrical sidewall extending downwardly therefrom, the container cap being configured to be slidably received in the open top end of the generator column container,
- an annular coupling groove defined by an inner surface of the sidewall of the container cap;
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- an elastomeric boot including an annular coupling ring, a body portion extending downwardly therefrom, and a substantially cylindrical base portion disposed at a bottom end of the body portion,
- wherein the annular coupling ring is disposed within the annular coupling groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.