Nuclear data for production and medical application of radionuclides: present status and future needs

SM Qaim - Nuclear medicine and biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction The significance of nuclear data in the choice and medical application of a
radionuclide is considered: the decay data determine its suitability for organ imaging or …

Copper radionuclides for theranostic applications: towards standardisation of their nuclear data. A mini-review

M Hussain, SM Qaim, I Spahn, MN Aslam… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Copper has several clinically relevant radioisotopes and versatile coordination chemistry,
allowing attachment of its radionuclides to biological molecules. This characteristic makes it …

Reference cross sections for charged-particle monitor reactions

A Hermanne, AV Ignatyuk, R Capote, BV Carlson… - Nuclear Data …, 2018 - Elsevier
Evaluated cross sections of beam-monitor reactions are expected to become the de-facto
standard for cross-section measurements that are performed over a very broad energy …

Optical potentials for the rare-isotope beam era

C Hebborn, FM Nunes, G Potel… - Journal of Physics G …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We review recent progress and motivate the need for further developments in nuclear optical
potentials that are widely used in the theoretical analysis of nucleon elastic scattering and …

FENDL: A library for fusion research and applications

G Schnabel, DL Aldama, T Bohm, U Fischer… - Nuclear Data …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fusion Evaluated Nuclear Data Library (FENDL) is a comprehensive and
validated collection of nuclear cross section data coordinated by the International Atomic …

PET/CT imaging for treatment verification after proton therapy: a study with plastic phantoms and metallic implants

K Parodi, H Paganetti, E Cascio, JB Flanz… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The feasibility of off‐line positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for
routine three dimensional in‐vivo treatment verification of proton radiation therapy is …

Definitions of radioisotope thick target yields

N Otuka, S Takács - Radiochimica Acta, 2015 - degruyter.com
Definitions of thick target yields are reviewed in relation to their documentation for the
experimental nuclear reaction data library (database). Researchers reporting experimental …

The present and future of medical radionuclide production

SM Qaim - Radiochimica Acta, 2012 - degruyter.com
Medical radionuclide production technology is well established. Both reactors and
cyclotrons are utilized for production; the positron emitters, however, are produced …

Recommended nuclear data for medical radioisotope production: diagnostic gamma emitters

FT Tárkányi, AV Ignatyuk, A Hermanne… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2019 - Springer
An extensive series of evaluations have been performed as part of an IAEA coordinated
research project to study a set of nuclear reactions that produce the diagnostic gamma-ray …

Production of iodine-124 and its applications in nuclear medicine

AMS Braghirolli, W Waissmann, JB da Silva… - Applied Radiation and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Until recently, iodine-124 was not considered to be an attractive isotope for medical
applications owing to its complex radioactive decay scheme, which includes several high …