Positron makes purchase to enter radioisotope business

Molecular imaging company Positron has signed a letter of intent to buy Manhattan Isotope Technology (MIT), a strontium-82 (SR-82) product specialist, for an undisclosed amount.

Positron said it hopes the purchase will help make it a leading supplier of the SR-82 radioisotope.

Over the past five years, the growth of PET imaging has driven the market for SR-82 to where demand is now outpacing supply, according to the Positron announcement.

Fishers, Ind.-based Positron said the agreement with MIT, of Lubbock, Texas, is binding. It expects to wrap the deal in early January.

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