Experimental and calculated nuclear reaction data relevant to innovative production of medical radioisotopes

Abstract

Abstract. Selected results are presented and discussed concerning nuclear data relevant to the production of innovative medical radionuclides of special interest, as from research activities brought up at INFN LASA Laboratory, with reference to irradiation experiments at the K = 38 Cyclotron JRC-Ispra Cyclotron Laboratory. Measurements of excitation functions of the involved nuclear reactions are considered, in comparison with corresponding theoretical calculations, especially including radiation detection measurements, through the relevant instruments, and the requested radiochemistry studies. The considered radionuclides and the relevant production reactions are specified in the following introduction, also concerning recent and new measurements.

Evaluation of charged particle induced reaction cross section data for production of the important therapeutic radionuclide186Re

“…The experimental data also showed good agreement with EMPIRE calculations. Menapace et al [22,23] measured cross sections up to about 17 MeV. The normalization factor introduced in our work for those data was 0.868.…”

“…The present work is a more up to date evaluation; besides the older experimental data it considers several other relevant reports (cf . [23,[53][54][55]) that are not included in the CRP. Furthermore, the method of selection (and rejection) of data developed by us, and reported recently [32,33], is better founded as compared to the rather empirical method used in the CRP.…”

Upgrade of recommended nuclear cross section data base for production of therapeutic radionuclides

“…A total of 11 data sets were found in literature: [90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102] and are compared with TENDL libraries in Fig. 54.…”