Recommended nuclear data for medical radioisotope production: diagnostic gamma emitters

• Published in: Journal of radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry 2019-02, Vol.319 (2), p.487-531
• Main Authors: Tárkányi, F. T., Ignatyuk, A. V., Hermanne, A., Capote, R., Carlson, B. V., Engle, J. W., Kellett, M. A., Kibedi, T., Kim, G. N., Kondev, F. G., Hussain, M., Lebeda, O., Luca, A., Nagai, Y., Naik, H., Nichols, A. L., Nortier, F. M., Suryanarayana, S. V., Takács, S., Verpelli, M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Chemistry; Chemistry and Materials Science; Cross-section evaluation; Cross-sections; Diagnostic medical isotopes; Diagnostic Radiology; Diagnostic systems; Emitters; Gamma rays; gamma-ray emitters; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; IAEA Coordinated Research Project; Inorganic Chemistry; INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Nuclear Chemistry; Nuclear energy; Nuclear Physics; Nuclear reactions; Nuclear reactors; Nuclear Theory; Online health care information services; Pade fit; Physical Chemistry; Physics; RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY, AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; Radioisotopes; Recommended sigma- and yield data; Uncertainty; Uncertainty estimation
• ISSN: 0236-5731; 1588-2780
• DOI: 10.1007/s10967-018-6142-4

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 emitting radionuclides 51 Cr, 99m Tc, 111 In, 123 I and 201 Tl. Recommended cross-section data in the form of excitation functions have been derived, along with quantifications of their uncertainties. These evaluations involved the compilation of all previously published values and newly measured experimental data, followed by critical assessments and selection of those experimental datasets and accompanying uncertainties judged to be fully valid and statistically consistent for model-independent least-squares fitting by means of Padé approximations. Integral yields as a function of the energy were also calculated on the basis of the recommended cross sections deduced from these various fits. All evaluated numerical results and their corresponding uncertainties are available online at www-nds.iaea.org/medical/gamma_emitters.html and also on the medical portal of the International Atomic Energy Agency/Nuclear Data Section (IAEA-NDS) www-nds.iaea.org/medportal/ .