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31 January 2019

Colibri-30 Type B: the ultimate Lemer Pax transport container

As part of the Medicis-Promed* project, Lemer Pax designed and produced a new type B container, a first for the company! Its objective: transport exotic isotopes[1] from their place of production to hospitals or radiopharmacies. This year, the Colibri (COLIs...

21 January 2019

ALARA: the golden rule in radiation protection

In preventing occupational hazards, radiation protection is the field in which the precautionary principle of ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) was first applied. It is one of the basic principles of protection against ionizing radiation. This precautionary, optimising principle...

11 January 2019

Retrospective 2018

Ongoing projects, success stories, technological innovations, events and business news… our digital retrospective takes a look back at Lemer Pax highlights of the past year!

2 January 2019

3 questions to Jean-François Chatal, pioneer of Nuclear Medicine in France

Professor Jean-François Chatal is former director of the nuclear medicine department at Nantes University Hospital, as well as the city’s Cancer Centre. He and his team were responsible for the installation of a high energy/high intensity cyclotron known as Aronax,...

12 December 2018

Lemer Pax: applying our ecological policy each day

Lemer Pax has set itself a goal through its slogan: ‘Protecting life’. This is our firm’s purpose, the undertaking we state loudly and clearly to our customers, partners and employees. It finds expression in our practice of social responsibility. Indeed,...

16 October 2018

3 questions to Philippe Gervais, PhD in radiopharmacy, international expert with the CEA

Under the aegis of the CAor and Lotus collaborative projects, developed at the molecular and functional imaging centre at Frédéric Joliot Hospital (SHFJ) in Orsay, Lemer Pax has designed, manufactured and delivered four radiosynthesis cells for the CEA, dedicated to...

EANM 2018 - Lemer Pax & Medisytem - Booth 32

19 September 2018

EANM 2018 – Booth 32: Lemer Pax and Medisystem team up in Düsseldorf

The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), a leading global force in our field, will be hosting its 31st annual congress in Düsseldorf, Germany from 13th-17th October. A perfect opportunity for Lemer Pax and Medisystem to once again join forces under the aegis of our Isotop4Life centre of excellence.

WNE 2018 - Paris Nord Villepinte - Lemer Pax

25 June 2018

Lemer Pax-CEA-Rosatom, the winning troika at the WNE

With the signature of two major partnerships with the CEA and Rosatom, Lemer Pax is once again demonstrating the extent of its know-how in the design and manufacture of biological protections at all levels of the life cycle of a...

4 June 2018

Lemer Pax involved in a scientific mission to save the whale

Sea Proven, a company from the Mayenne department, the journal Mer et Océans and Lemer Pax, in collaboration with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the university of Toulon and the association Longitude 181, are launching the first oceanographic...

4 June 2018

Radiation protection: new directives regarding the employer’s responsibility

Radiation protection regulations are changing. Decrees transposing the European directive 2013/59 Euratom were published in the Official Bulletin on 4 June 2018. These regulations consolidate the cohesion and efficiency of the teams at all levels and propose a graduated approach...

JFMN 2018 - Nuclear medicine - protecting life - Lemer Pa

17 May 2018

68Ga, progress in theranostics

The JFMN to be held in Lille on 24-26th May, will include several scientific sessions (equipment, oncology, radiopharmacy, etc.) concerning the new perspectives for the use of 68Ga. This is an opportunity for us to provide a brief introduction to...

16 April 2018

Posijet® in the spotlights @BNMS

PETIC Cardiff operators take the opportunity of this 50th edition of the British Nuclear Medicine Society congress to present a poster including a complete dosimetry study of the implementation of an automated FDG injector designed by Lemer Pax, Posijet®. Indeed,...

13 April 2018

Evaluation of a radiation protection cabin for invasive electrophysiological procedures

The use of the radiation protection cabin allows to perform catheter ablation procedures without hindrance and with negligible radiation exposure for the operator.

1 April 2018

3 questions to Yann Valy, interventional cardiologist at the La Rochelle Hospital

With emergencies, weekly scheduled activities, simple and complex angioplasty procedures, with rotablation and intracoronary imaging, the radiation risks are increasing, and since I started using the booth, my exposure doses have dropped significantly.

30 March 2018

New guide for the transport of radioactive substances

This month, the French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) published a new guide on Radiation Protection in Radioactive Substance Transport Activities for professionals. Focus on a key issue! Nearly one million packages of radioactive substances are transported in France each year. Twelve...