Published August 21, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Possible PET isotope production using linear deuteron accelerators

  • 1. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 (United States)

Description

PET isotopes like 11C and 18F may be produced in deuteron-induced reactions using linear deuteron accelerators for energies 2-2.5 MeV. It is shown that the yield of PET isotopes in reactions 10B(d,n)11C and 20Ne(d,a)18F may be higher than the yield of the same isotopes in proton-induced reactions at higher energies, where protons are accelerated by a cyclotron. The lower cost and smaller size of linear accelerators make deuteron-induced reactions very promising for industrial PET production

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2005.05.061;
PII
S0168-9002(05)01284-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
548
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 571-573
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.