Comprehensive Theoretical Studies on 11-MeV Proton Based Tc-99m Production

• DOI: 10.7454/mss.v21i3.5507
• Publication Date: 2018-02-08T07:00:04Z
• Authors: Imam Kambali
• Keywords: Economic shortage

The shortage of nuclear-reactor-based Tc-99m supply has led to increased research on cyclotron-based production. In this paper, radionuclides produced by a 11-MeV proton cyclotron is theoretically discussed in terms the optimum thickness nat Mo, MoO 3 , and enriched 100 Mo targets; expected impurities; radioactivity yields several (p,2n), (p,n), (p,γ) based nuclear reactions. SRIM 2013 codes TALYS 2014 are employed calculate range beams Mo-based targets excitation functions selected reactions, respectively. calculated results indicate that 94m,95m,96m Tc would give rise radionuclide impurities at end irradiation for targets, whereas no significant were detected target. At bombardment, nearly 42.18 GBq/µA.hr predicted result proton-irradiated