Excitation functions of 3He-particle induced reactions on 101Ru and 102Ru for production of the medically interesting radionuclide 101mRh

Ye. Skakun; S.M. Qaim

doi:doi:10.1051/ndata:07279

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Year: 2007

10.1051/ndata:07279

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Issue		ND 2007 2007


Article Number		364
Number of page(s)		3
Section		Medical and environmental applications
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/ndata:07279
Published online		17 June 2008

International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology 2007
DOI: 10.1051/ndata:07279

Excitation functions of ³He-particle induced reactions on ¹⁰¹Ru and ¹⁰²Ru for production of the medically interesting radionuclide ^101mRh

Ye. Skakun¹ and S.M. Qaim²

¹ National Science Center ``Kharkiv Institute of Physics & Technology'', 61108 Kharkiv, Ukraine
² Institut für Nuklearchemie, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany

skakun@kipt.kharkov.ua

Published online: 21 May 2008

Abstract
Using the stacked-foil technique with thin enriched ruthenium targets, excitation functions of ¹⁰¹Ru(³He,x)^101mRh, ¹⁰²Ru(³He,x)^101mRh and several other reactions were measured to study the possibility of production of the medical radioisotope ^101mRh in helion induced reactions. The ³He-ion energy region extended up to 34 MeV. The ¹⁰¹Ru(³He,x)^101mRh reaction was found to be the most effective one. The integral thick target yield of the product radionuclide ^101mRh calculated from the excitation function amounts to 16.1 MBq/µAh with the sum of the long-lived impurities ^101gRh, ^102mRh, and ^102gRh being 0.5% at the maximum bombarding energy.