A special nuclear medicine facility at the state’s biggest hospital will be able to make vital medical tracking drugs faster and in greater numbers following a $6.11 million expansion.

The “Hot Lab” at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital manufactures radioactive tracers used to detect cancers and other diseases.

RBWH's Q-TRaCE Hot Lab has been expanded, doubling its capacity. Credit:RBWH

Lab manager Marissa Bartlett said the upgrade, which had been completed over the past 12 months, had effectively doubled capacity.

“Previously we were limited by the number of manufacturing modules we had. We could only do so much simultaneously," Dr Bartlett said.