# Nuclide record ge-68 (isotope). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ge-68/>
  a schema:ChemicalSubstance ;
  nuclide:kind "isotope" ;
  schema:identifier "ge-68" ;
  schema:name "Germanium-68"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "68Ge"@en, "Ge-68"@en ;
  schema:description "The long-lived parent locked inside a gallium-68 generator. One loaded column can supply a year's worth of PET tracer doses for prostate cancer and neuroendocrine tumour scans, but the generators themselves have been expensive and slow to get."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ge-68/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9588110/>, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium-68_generator>, <https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/new-crp-production-of-cyclotron-based-gallium-68-radioisotope-and-related-radiopharmaceuticals-f22073> ;
  nuclide:status "established" ;
  nuclide:tag "generator parent", "long-lived", "supply bottleneck" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/ga-68/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/ga68-dotatate/>, <https://nuclide.cc/drugs/ga68-psma-11/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radionuclide-generators-kits/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/sstr-pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/psma-pet/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/cyclotron-isotope-production/> ;
  nuclide:companies <https://nuclide.cc/companies/eckert-ziegler/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/ire/>, <https://nuclide.cc/companies/isotopia/> .