Results on accelerator production of innovative radionuclides for metabolic radiotherapy and PET and on related nuclear data

Flavia Groppi, Mauro L. Bonardi, Enzo Menapace, Sabrina Morzenti, Cristiano Zona, Lea Canella, Zeev B. Alfassi

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Abstract

A range of high specific activity accelerator-produced radionuclides in no-carrier-added (NCA) form, for uses in metabolic radiotherapy and for PET, has been investigated. To this aim it was necessary optimizing the irradiation parameters by determining the excitation functions of the nuclear reactions involved, as needed for the following selective radiochemical separations of the radionuclides of interest. For the NCA radionuclides investigated, the spectrometry measurements, done at LASA-INFN on γ, X and on α spectra are discussed together with the measurements of radionuclidic, radiochemical and chemical purities by analytical and radioanalytical techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1072-1075
Number of pages4
JournalNuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume562
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Jun 2006

Keywords

  • Analytical-radioanalytical techniques
  • Metabolic radiotherapy
  • No-carrier-added radionuclides
  • PET

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Instrumentation

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