Media Room
26 July 2019
3 questions for Karen Chamoulaud, RPO at the Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien
The guardian angel of nuclear medicine services is playing an increasingly important role The use of ionising radiation has diversified, with the emergence of new procedures, and the function of RPO, radiation protection officer, is adapting to this change. With...
4 July 2019
MEDICIS-Promed: from fundamental research to hospitals
Created in 2015, the MEDICIS-Promed* (“MEDICIS-produced radioisotope beams for medicine”) project is an innovating training network. This truly European network is part of the European Union framework programme dedicated to research and innovation: 2020 horizon. Take a look back to...
27 June 2019
Acquisition of SIRP: Lemer Pax increases its leadership in the field of non-destructive testing
Lemer Pax, global innovation leader in the field of radiation protection, is taking over the medical and industrial radiation protection activities of its competitor the SIRP (Société Industrielle de Radio-Protection), a company created in 1989. For many years, LEMER Pax...
28 May 2019
The 4 steps for shielding a radiology room
You are embarking on a project involving ionising radiation! Have you decided to create your own shielded radiology room (radiology or nuclear medicine centre, radioiodine treatment room) or do you plant to begin doing non-destructive testing? Here are the 4...
25 April 2019
Mission accomplished for Maddalena Maietta and Lemer Pax
On 13 December last year, Maddalena Maietta, a young Italian physicist, was the first of the 15 PhD students participating in the European MEDICIS-Promed* project (MEDICIS-produced radioisotope beams for medicine), to defend her thesis “Aspects of radiation protection associated with...
1 March 2019
STMN, JFMN & DGN: the Posijet® is setting out on its spring tour
With spring coming closer, the Posijet® is getting ready to travel! The independent fractionation and injection unit for high energy radiopharmaceuticals, designed and manufactured by Lemer Pax, will be under the spotlight in the next editions of the STMN, JFMN...
21 February 2019
3 questions for Alexandre Milochévitch, Head of Bessé Nuclear Solutions®
Bessé – 100 million euros in revenue, 450 employees in Nantes, Paris and London – is a family business, founded 60 years ago. The first years were marked by a close partnership with the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyards, in the...
6 February 2019
Radioactivity in question
Radioactivity in question Types of radiation and their penetration power Helium core: the alpha emission can be stopped by a simple sheet of paper Electron: the beta emission can be stopped by a few millimetres of aluminium Gamma: Gamma...
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...
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.
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...
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