Open Access122Sb - a potential radiotracer: Evaluation of cyclotron production via novel routes
Author(s) -
Milad Enferadi,
Mahdi Sadeghi
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
nuclear technology and radiation protection
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1452-8185
pISSN - 1451-3994
DOI - 10.2298/ntrp1101058s
Subject(s) - cyclotron , alice (programming language) , radionuclide , extraction (chemistry) , antimony , radiochemistry , nuclear reaction , physics , chemistry , nuclear physics , materials science , chromatography , computer science , inorganic chemistry , plasma , programming language
Antimony-122, having a half-life of 2.723 d and Iß-=97.59%, is an important radiotracer in studies of environmental contamination and food crops. For the work discussed in this paper, the production of 122Sb was done via the natSn(p, xn)122Sb nuclear reaction. Radiochemical separation was performed by silica gel column chromatography and liquid-liquid extraction methods. Excitation functions for the 122Sb radionuclide, via 122Sn(p, n)122Sb, natSn(p, xn)122Sb, 122Sn(d, 2n)122Sb, natSn(d, xn)122Sb, 124Sn(p, 3n)122Sb and 124Sn(d, 4n)122Sb reactions, were calculated by ALICE/91, ALICE/ASH, and TALYS-1.2 codes and compared with existing data