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Carbon-10: Example of cyclotron production of positron emitters as an open research field
This paper supports the thesis that significant improvement of PET output response to clinical questions can be achieved by innovation in radionuclide production. Moreover, that development can be performed with the resources available at a clinical centre. Carbon-10 production parameters studies are used as example. A technical methodology for measurement of excitation function of nuclear reactions yielding short-lived radionuclides, performed to measure cross section values of the 10B(p,n)10C reaction in a PET-devoted cyclotron, is presented.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TVT-4JVT1KS-D/1/27f31c7a6e33bde32315dd89804a773
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Producción y aplicaciones del cobalto-55
El 55Co (t1/2=17.53 h, 76% β+) es un radionúclido atractivo para medicina nuclear por dos razones principales: 1) Puede ser fácilmente coordinado con los quelantes tradicionales y 2) Posee un radionúclido análogo, 58mCo (t1/2=9.04 h), con propiedades terapéuticas1, el cual puede ser producido con alta actividad especÃfica y en gran escala en un ciclotrón pequeño siguiendo los mismos métodos desarrollados para 55Co que se describen a continuación