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https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOMS035
Title First Production of Astatine-211 at Crocker Nuclear Laboratory at UC Davis
Authors
  • E. Prebys, D.A. Cebra, R.B. Kibbee, L.M. Korkeila, K.S. Stewart
    UCD, Davis, California, USA
  • M.R. Backfish
    UC Davis, Davis, USA
Abstract There is a great deal of interest in the medical community in the use of the alpha-emitter At-211 as a therapeutic isotope. Among other things, its 7.2 hour half life is long enough to allow for recovery and labeling, but short enough to avoid long term activity in patients. Unfortunately, the only practical technique for its production is to bombard a Bi-209 target with a ~29 MeV alpha beam, so it is not accessible to commercial isotope production facilities, which all use fixed energy proton beams. The US Department of Energy is therefore supporting the development of a "University Isotope Network" (UIN) to satisfy this need. As part of this effort, we have developed an At-211 production facility using the variable-energy, multi-species cyclotron at Crocker Nuclear Lab the University of California, Davis. This effort relies on a beam probe which has been modified to serve as an internal Bi-209 target, to avoid problems with alpha particle extraction efficiency. This poster will data on the first production and recovery of At-211 using this system.
Funding This work partially supported by the US DOE under contract DE-SC0020407
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Conference IPAC2022
Series International Particle Accelerator Conference (13th)
Location Bangkok, Thailand
Date 12-17 June 2022
Publisher JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Board Frank Zimmermann (CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland); Hitoshi Tanaka (RIKEN, Hyogo, Japan); Porntip Sudmuang (SRLI, Nakhon, Thailand); Prapong Klysubun (SRLI, Nakhon, Thailand); Prapaiwan Sunwong (SRLI, Nakhon, Thailand); Thakonwat Chanwattana (SRLI, Nakhon, Thailand); Christine Petit-Jean-Genaz (CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland); Volker R.W. Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
Online ISBN 978-3-95450-227-1
Online ISSN 2673-5490
Received 09 June 2022
Revised 15 June 2022
Accepted 15 June 2022
Issue Date 03 July 2022
DOI doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOMS035
Pages 3038-3040
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