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TY - CONF AU - Owen, H.L. AU - Ballinger, J.R. AU - Buscombe, J. AU - Clarke, R.J. AU - Denton, E. AU - Ellis, B. AU - Flux, G.D. AU - Fraser, L. AU - Neilly, B.J. AU - Paterson, A. AU - Perkins, A. AU - Scarsbrook, A.F. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Michel, Peter ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - Options for UK Technetium-99m Production using Accelerators J2 - Proc. of IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany, June 15-20, 2014 C1 - Dresden, Germany T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 5 LA - english AB - Recent and ongoing shortages in reactor-based supplies of Molybdenum-99 for hospital production of the important medical radioisotope Technetium-99m have prompted the re-examination of the alternative production methods using conventional and laser-based particle accelerators. At present the UK has no domestic Technetium-99m production and relies exclusively on Technetium-99m generators manufactured overseas; the National Health Service, with professional partners, is therefore examining the options for domestic production to increase security of supply. In this paper we review the accelerator-based methods from a UK perspective, and outline the most promising methods for short- and medium-term supply, which include low-energy cyclotron and photonuclear reaction routes using enriched Molybdenum-100 targets. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 2815 EP - 2818 KW - target KW - cyclotron KW - neutron KW - linac KW - proton DA - 2014/07 PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-95450-132-8 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-THOAB02 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2014/papers/thoab02.pdf ER -