| Title |
Production Pathways for Medically Interesting Isotopes |
| Authors |
- L. Rosado Del Rio
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- L.F. Dabill
Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
- A. Hutton
JLab, Newport News, Virginia, USA
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| Abstract |
Radioisotopes are commonly used in nuclear medicine for treating cancer and new, more effective treatment options are always desired. As a result, there is a national need for new radioisotopes and ways to produce them. A computer program was created that evaluates the daughters for all known reactions of projectiles (gamma rays, protons or neutrons) with every stable target isotope by comparing the cross-sections for each reaction at a desired energy, and outputs a list of the potential daughter isotopes that are most likely to be generated. The program then evaluates the decay chains of these daughters to provide a list of the possible decay chains that contain the radioisotope of interest. By knowing the daughter production and decay chain for each isotope, it is possible to go from the desired radioisotope to the stable isotope that can be used as a target for its production. This project would facilitate the search for new pathways to creating useful theranostic isotopes.
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| Funding |
LR was supported by the U.S. NSF REU at Old Dominion University Grant No. 1950141. AH was supported by the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under Contract No. DE-AC05-06OR23177 |
| Paper |
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| Conference |
NAPAC2022 |
| Series |
International Particle Accelerator Conference (5th) |
| Location |
Albuquerque, NM, USA |
| Date |
07-12 August 2022 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Sandra Biedron (Element Aero, Chicago, IL, USA); Evgenya Simakov (LANL, Los Alamos, NM, USA); Stephen Milton (Element Aero, Chicago, IL, USA); Petr M. Anisimov (LANL, Los Alamos, NM, USA); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-232-5 |
| Online ISSN |
2673-7000 |
| Received |
17 July 2022 |
| Revised |
01 August 2022 |
| Accepted |
12 August 2022 |
| Issue Date |
25 August 2022 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-TUXD3 |
| Pages |
271-273 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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