نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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گروه مهندسی پرتوپزشکی، دانشکده فنی و مهندسی، واحد لاهیجان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، صندوق پستی: 1616، لاهیجان - ایران
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Bromine-76 (half-life = 16.2 hours) is a positron emitter radionuclide with a high potential for use in nuclear medicine; but due to the difficulty of producing commercial quantities, it is only used in laboratory studies. This radionuclide is usually produced through the reaction of 76Se(p,n)76Br. This research investigates the possibility of obtaining commercial quantities of 76Br by bombarding targets made of stable germanium isotopes with 7Li+ heavy ion. The excitation functions of 70Ge(7Li+,n)76Br, 72Ge(7Li+,3n)76Br, 73Ge(7Li+,4n)76Br, 74Ge(7Li+,5n)76Br and 76Ge(7Li+,7n)76Br reactions were drawn using the EMPIRE and LISEcute++ codes. From the comparison of these excitation functions, 72Ge(7Li+,3n)76Br in the energy range of 30 to 40MeV was selected as the premier reaction. The maximum theoretical production yield in 40MeV for these codes is 32.46MBq/µAh and 61.43MBq/µAh, respectively. The analyzed and experimental yields of 76Se(p,n)76Br at 16MeV are 506.61MBq/µAh and 88MBq/µAh, respectively. From the comparison of the theoretical production yield of 72Ge(7Li+,3n)76Br and 76Se(p,n)76Br reactions, it can be concluded that the 72Ge(7Li+,3n)76Br reaction is considered only when the target of 72Ge or a combination of them have long-term irradiation capability (without melting) and thus produce more 76Br activity in practice.
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