**8. Baby cyclotron characteristics**

Baby cyclotrons are known as a hospital equipment be cause they are build to fulfill the medical proposes, in general, they can afford until 4 targets to activated most of radioisotopes needs to do PET studies

In Venezuelan experience the first installed cyclotron has the following characteristics:


Also the device dimensions where 3.6 x 2 x 2 m3 for the acceleration d´s and inner shielding. And the room has to have at least 7 x 5 m2 only for the cyclotron and another 6 x 5 m2 for the synthesis lab. But the very concerning issue is the weight of the entire system, only in inner shielding it has 37 tons and the magnet alone has a weight of 11 tons the full system is over 50 tons

This cyclotron produce protons of 9.6 millions of electron volts (MeV) of energy with a maximum current of 50 μΑ, the target is made of oxigen to transmute to fluor. In this activation process there are some particles going out the path of the main beam so they have to be stopped by the inner shielding as to warranty 10 μSv/h at 1 m from shleding and 1 m from floor. Also the magnetic regulation permit 1 G at 6 m from the center of the D´s
