Revisiting Low Energy Deuteron Production of [18F] Fluoride and Fluorine for PET
作者:
T. E. Barnhart,
R. J. Nickles,
A. D. Roberts,
期刊:
AIP Conference Proceedings
(AIP Available online 1903)
卷期:
Volume 680,
issue 1
页码: 1086-1089
ISSN:0094-243X
年代: 1903
DOI:10.1063/1.1619896
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Fluorine‐18 is currently the most widely used radioisotope in PET imaging. While much attention has been paid in recent years to production methods from18O(p,n)18F, the current work revisits production techniques using non‐enriched neon targets and the20Ne(d,&agr;)18F reaction. While this reaction was originally pursued, and ultimately replaced by the higher yielding18O reactions, there is an opportunity using high current low‐energy deuteron accelerators and the inherent simplicity of gas targetry to provide viable alternatives to the costly18O water target systems.18F production systems have been developed for the gas‐phase20Ne(d,&agr;)18F reaction with deuterons from a 3MV NEC 9SDH‐2 electrostatic tandem accelerator. High power target systems allowing for irradiation in excess of 100uA provided [18F]F2yields to 86&percent; of the theoretical maximum, and [18F]F−yields with a wash‐off system of 80&percent; of the maximum. © 2003 American Institute of Physics
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