What we implemented required a short amount of time for us to work with Health Canada to put in place policies that would allow us to transport generators that had been used in one facility. Then if they were small enough we could ship them out to other facilities. This worked very well for a number of outlying facilities, especially farther north and farther south from us.
The other thing was to use generators somewhat beyond their normal expiry date, implementing the appropriate safeguards for testing to make sure things had not gone awry after the expiry date.
Those were the two things we needed to do. Health Canada responded fairly well with us by giving us process, and we made a process to allow us to do that. We needed the time to do that, but once that was in place, we were set. There wasn't much else we could do.
The other thing we did look at, which might have helped with advance notice, was that some areas that did have cyclotrons could use fluorine 18 fluoride as a bone imaging agent, and this would help offset one of the technetium radiopharmaceuticals for bone scanning. We did not have an approved radiopharmaceutical for that in Edmonton, and in cooperation with Dr. Gulenchyn in Hamilton, we put forward a very hasty clinical trial application to use fluoride, but we never did use that. As things unfolded, we didn't need to.