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- Title
Production of high specific activity radiolanthanides for medical purposes using the UC Irvine TRIGA reactor.
- Authors
Safavi-Tehrani, Leila; Miller, George; Nilsson, Mikael
- Abstract
Radioactive lanthanides have become an important imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic tool in the medical field. The objective of our research was to investigate the feasibility of producing radioactive lanthanides with high specific activity in a small-scale research reactor using the Szilard-Chalmers method. The results indicate that the activated nuclides recoil out of the target after neutron capture and we obtain enrichment of the radionuclide compared to the bulk irradiation. These first attempts, result in enrichment factors and yields that are low but indicates a possibility of using this technique if the method is further optimized.
- Subjects
RARE earth metals; NUCLEAR medicine; SZILARD-Chalmers reaction; NUCLIDES; FEASIBILITY studies
- Publication
Journal of Radioanalytical & Nuclear Chemistry, 2015, Vol 303, Issue 2, p1099
- ISSN
0236-5731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10967-014-3486-2