Priority
PET diagnostics
Gallium-68 generators and the labelling kits that go with them, for prostate and neuroendocrine imaging. The fastest-growing part of the field.
- Isotope
- Ga-68 / Ge-68
- Half-life
- 67.71 min
- Form
- Generator + cold kit
Decay curve for gallium-68, half-life 67.71 minutes. Activity falls to 50% at 68 minutes, 25% at 135 minutes, and approximately 16% after three hours.
Nuclear medicine supply — Central America & the Caribbean
The delivery is the product.
Everything we carry has a clock on it, and the whole job is getting there before it runs out.
Gallium-68 · residual activityT+ 000 MIN · 100.0%
01 — The constraint
Everything here is already dying.
A radiopharmaceutical begins losing value the moment it is made. Not in storage. In transit.
After three hours in transit, a gallium-68 dose has 16% of its activity left.
A missed flight is not a late delivery. It is a cancelled clinic.
This is why the schedule is the product.
Time elapsedT+ 3 h
Ga-6867.71 min
PET — prostate and neuroendocrine imaging15.8%
Tc-99m6.007 h
Routine SPECT diagnostics70.7%
Mo-9965.94 h
Tc-99m generator parent — governs generator life96.9%
Lu-1776.647 d
Targeted radioligand therapy98.7%
Residual activity after three hours in transit.
02 — Portfolio
What we supply.
We work as an appointed agent for manufacturers, not as a reseller. The product ships from them to the department; we hold the relationship, the registrations and the schedule.
Priority
Routine diagnostics
Technetium-99m generators, cold kits and hot lab consumables. Established volume that puts us in every department every week.
- Isotope
- Tc-99m / Mo-99
- Half-life
- 6.007 h
- Form
- Generator + cold kit
Next
Targeted therapy
Lutetium-177 radioligand therapies as treatment centres in the region come online. High value, short half-life, regional delivery only.
- Isotope
- Lu-177
- Half-life
- 6.647 d
- Form
- Ready-to-use dose
03 — The geography
Regional delivery is the only delivery.
Half-life sets the radius. A product that loses most of its activity in a working day cannot be flown in from another hemisphere. It has to move inside the region, on connections that already exist, on a schedule built around the appointment rather than the freight.
Connecting hub — PTYTransit · On arrival
- SJO1.1 h 51%
- GUA2.2 h 26%
- SAL2.0 h 29%
- TGU2.1 h 28%
- SDQ2.4 h 23%
- KIN2.0 h 29%
- POS2.6 h 20%
- SJU2.9 h 17%
Illustrative — modelled transit times
Illustrative map of Central America and the Caribbean showing modelled air connections between San José, Panama City, Guatemala City, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Santo Domingo, Kingston, Port of Spain and San Juan.
04 — Why a specialist
Radiopharmaceuticals are not ordinary freight.
01
Calibrated to the appointment
Activity specified for the hour the study happens, not the hour the shipment leaves. The department gets what it ordered.
02
Support in the same time zone
Someone reachable in Spanish during the working day, on the morning a labelling yield comes back low.
03
More than one source
Global isotope supply rests on a handful of ageing reactors. We build supply across more than one, so a single outage does not stop deliveries.
05 — Standing
Where we are.
Plymouth Emerald does not currently hold radioactive materials licensing, distribution appointments or product registrations. No product is offered for sale.
We are in early conversations with manufacturers and with nuclear medicine departments across the region. Everything described on this site is the model we are building toward, not capability in place today.
We would rather say this plainly here than have you find it out later.
06 — Contact
Get in touch.
We are in early conversations with manufacturers and with nuclear medicine departments across the region. If you supply this market or work in it, we would like to hear from you.
hello@plymouthemerald.comUnited States
Plymouth Emerald LLC
Costa Rica
Plymouth Emerald S.A.
San José