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Appl Radiat Isot. 2016 Mar;109:389-392. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.12.056. Epub 2015 Dec 29.

Absolute standardization of the impurity (121)Te associated to the production of the radiopharmaceutical (123)I.

Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine

M T F Araújo, R Poledna, J U Delgado, R L Silva, A Iwahara, C J da Silva, L Tauhata, A E Oliveira, M C M de Almeida, R T Lopes

Affiliations

  1. Laboratório Nacional de Metrologia das Radiações Ionizantes (LNMRI/IRD/CNEN), Av. Salvador Allende, s/n, Recreio, CEP 22780-160 RJ, Brazil; Laboratório de Instrumentação Nuclear (LIN/PEN/COPPE/UFRJ), Caixa Postal 68509, CEP 21945-970 RJ, Brazil.
  2. Laboratório Nacional de Metrologia das Radiações Ionizantes (LNMRI/IRD/CNEN), Av. Salvador Allende, s/n, Recreio, CEP 22780-160 RJ, Brazil.
  3. Laboratório Nacional de Metrologia das Radiações Ionizantes (LNMRI/IRD/CNEN), Av. Salvador Allende, s/n, Recreio, CEP 22780-160 RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: [email protected].
  4. Laboratório de Instrumentação Nuclear (LIN/PEN/COPPE/UFRJ), Caixa Postal 68509, CEP 21945-970 RJ, Brazil.

PMID: 26805708 DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.12.056

Abstract

(123)I is widely used for radiodiagnostic procedures. It is produced by reaction of (124)Xe (p,2n) (123)Cs →(123)Xe →(123)I in cyclotrons. (121)Te and (125)I appear in a photon energy spectrum as impurities. An activity of (121)Te was calibrated absolutely by sum-peak method and its photon emitting probability was estimated, whose results were consistent with published results.

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Keywords: (121)Te; Absolute standardization; Radiopharmaceutical; Sum-peak method

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