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Production possibility of 161Tb utilizing secondary neutrons generated by protons from a low-energy cyclotron onto an isotope production target

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The production possibility of the medically relevant radioisotope 161Tb using a 9Be + p (Ep = 18 MeV) neutron source was investigated at the MGC cyclotron of ATOMKI. The 161Tb is formed via the 160Gd(n,γ)161Gd → 161Tb nuclear process. The available EOB yield was about 8000 Bq C−1 g−1. Predictions based on Monte Carlo calculations in conjunction with TENDL-2017 cross-section data overestimate the experimental results. These preliminary results indicate that secondary neutrons generated in a high-intensity medical radioisotope production target station could be useful for research-scale 161Tb production.

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The Hungarian authors wish to thank the financial support by the Hungarian Research Foundation, (Budapest, NKFIH/OTKA K108669). In part, this work was supported by the VKSZ_14-1-2015-0021 project financed from the National Research Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary in the framework of the Széchenyi 2020 Program.

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  1. Cyclotron Application Laboratory, Institute for Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ATOMKI, 18/c Bem tér, Debrecen, 4026, Hungary

    Ferenc Szelecsényi, András Fenyvesi, Károly Brezovcsik, Zoltán Kovács & Barna Biró

  2. iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, PO Box 722, Somerset West, 7129, South Africa

    Gideon Francois Steyn

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Szelecsényi, F., Fenyvesi, A., Steyn, G.F. et al. Production possibility of 161Tb utilizing secondary neutrons generated by protons from a low-energy cyclotron onto an isotope production target. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 318, 491–496 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6116-6

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