Medical Radioisotopes Produced Using the Alpha Particle Beam from the Warsaw Heavy Ion Cyclotron

K. Szkliniarz b, J. Jastrzębskia, A. Bilewicz c, E. Chajduk c, J. Choiński a, A. Jakubowski a, Ł. Janiszewska c, E. Leszczuk c, M. Łyczko c, M. Sitarz a, A. Stolarz a, A. Trzcińska a, B. Wąs d and W. Zipper b aHeavy Ion laboratory, University of Warsaw, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland bInstitute of Physics, Department of Nuclear Physics, University of Silesia, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland cInstitute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, 03-195 Warszawa, Poland dNiewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS, 31-342 Kraków, Poland

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The internal alpha particle beam of the heavy ion cyclotron operated by the Heavy Ion Laboratory (HIL) of the University of Warsaw has a maximum energy of 32 MeV and currently an intensity of up to 1 pμA. This beam is used by the HIL-University of Silesia collaboration for the production of research quantities of 211At, 72Se/72As and 43,44Sc radioisotopes. The produced activities are transported to the Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology in Warsaw where research on therapeutic and imaging radiopharmaceuticals based on these radioisotopes is pursued.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.127.1471 PACS numbers: 87.57.un, 87.57.-s