Author: Dabill, L.F.
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TUXD3 Production Pathways for Medically Interesting Isotopes 271
 
  • 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
 
  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
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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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2022-TUXD3  
About • Received ※ 17 July 2022 — Revised ※ 01 August 2022 — Accepted ※ 12 August 2022 — Issue date ※ 25 August 2022
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