There is considerable, and growing, interest in the 64Cu radioisotope for application in Nuclear Medicine for PET imaging and
targeted radiotherapy of tumours. We are investigating the cyclotron production of this isotope by way of deuteron bombardment of
enriched 64Zn target material. In this study, experimental excitation functions for both the 64Zn(d,2p)64Cu and 64Zn(d,an)61Cu reactions
up to 18.2MeV deuteron energy have been measured using the stacked-foil technique. The deuteron energies in the various foils were
calculated with the SRIM 2003 code and g-ray spectrometry was used to measure the activities of the various radioisotopes produced.
Monitor foils were used to determine the deuteron beam current on the target stack. Theoretical excitation functions, calculated both
with the Empire II code and with an updated version of the Alice code, were compared with the experimental results and a reasonable
agreement was found. The experimental work was performed at the MC40 Cyclotron at the European Commission¿s Joint Research
Centre at Ispra, Italy.JRC.I.4-Nanotechnology and Molecular Imagin