International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science and Technology 2007
DOI: 10.1051/ndata:07361

Application of Zn + p reactions for production of copper radioisotopes for medical studies

F. Szelecsényi¹, G.F. Steyn², K. Suzuki³, Z. Kovács¹, T.N. van der Walt², C. Vermeulen², N.P. van der Meulen², S.G. Dolley² and K. Mukai<sup>3

1</sup>  Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI), 4026, Bem tér 18/C, Debrecen, Hungary
²  iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences, Old Faure Road, P.O. Box 722, Somerset West 7129, South Africa
³  National Institute of Radiological Sciences, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba, 263-8555, Japan

szele@atomki.hu

Published online: 21 May 2008

Abstract
The production possibility of four medically important copper radioisotopes via Zn + p reactions was studied up to 80 MeV. Based on experimentally evaluated excitation function curves of the ⁶⁴Zn(p,x)⁶¹Cu, ^natZn(p,x)⁶²Zn → ⁶²Cu, ⁶⁶Zn(p,2pn)⁶⁴Cu, ⁶⁸Zn(p,x)⁶⁴Cu and ⁶⁸Zn(p,2p)⁶⁷Cu reactions, production energy windows are recommended for the ⁶¹Cu, ⁶²Cu, ⁶⁴Cu and ⁶⁷Cu isotopes. The available yields for these radioisotopes as well as the predicted yields of the major radiocontaminants are also presented.

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