A solid target system with remote handling of irradiated targets for PET cyclotrons.

Jonathan Siikanen; Thuy Tran; T G Olsson; Sven-Erik Strand; Anders Sandell

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2014.09.001

A solid target system with remote handling of irradiated targets for PET cyclotrons.

Jonathan Siikanen, Thuy Tran, T G Olsson, Sven-Erik Strand, Anders Sandell

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A solid target system was developed for a PET cyclotron. The system is compatible with many different target materials in the form of foils and electroplated/sputtered targets which makes it useful for production of a wide variety of different PET radionuclides. The target material is manually loaded into the system. Remote handling of irradiated target material is managed with a pneumatic piston and a vacuum technique which allows the targets to be dropped into a shielded transport container. To test the target performance, proton irradiations (12.8MeV, 45μA) of monoisotopic yttrium foils (0.64mm, direct water cooling) were performed to produce (89)Zr. The yields were 2200±200MBq (1h, n=13) and 6300±65MBq (3h, n=3).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	294-301
Journal	Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Volume	94
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2014.09.001
Publication status	Published - 2014

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