A preliminary study for the production of high specific activity radionuclides for nuclear medicine obtained with the isotope separation on line technique

摘要

Radiopharmaceuticals represent a fundamental tool for nuclear medicine procedures, both for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The present work aims to explore the Isotope Separation On-Line (ISOL) technique for the production of carrier-free radionuclides for nuclear medicine at SPES, a nuclear physics facility under construction at INFN-LNL. Stable ion beams of strontium, yttrium and iodine were produced using the SPES test bench (Front-End) to simulate the production of Sr-89, Y-99, I-125 and I-131 and collected with good efficiency on suitable targets.