NERS/BIOE 481
Lecture 04
Radiation Sources, Gamma rays

III. Sources of Radiation (continued) (Detailed Syllabus)

  1. Radioactive isotopes
  2. Isotope production
  3. Radiopharmaceuticals

Reading (pdf):
Assigned Sorenson, Ch.1 7 pgs Basic Atomic & Nuclear Physics,Pgs 9-16.
Assigned Sorenson, Ch.2 14 pgs Modes of Radioactive Decay.
Assigned Webb, Ch.6s4 12 pgs Radionuclides for imaging.
Optional Sorenson, Ch.5 19 pgs Radiopharmaceutical production.
Resource Sorenson, Ap.C 14 pgs Characteristics of radionuclides.
Resource Flynn, L04a 7 pgs Lecture charts on isotope prod.
Resource Isotopes 1998 1 pg 1998 Table of Isotopes.
Resource NAS 2016 262 pgs SEP2016 report on medical Mo production.
Resource Science 2011 3 pgs JAN2011 article on medical Mo production.
Resource LANL 2011 14 pgs DEC2011 lecture on LEU Mo production.
Lecture Material:

slides(pdf,1.6MB) , printview(pdf,0.8MB)

Homework: L04-HW03   (pdf)
    Answer : L04-HW03+ (pdf)

Links
Charts Table of Nuclides - History & Trends (Wikipedia)
Isotopes The Lund/LBNL Nuclear Data Search
LiveChart Table of Nuclides - Nuclear structure and decay data (IAEA)
NuDat 2 Search nuclear structure and decay data (BNL)
Tc-99m 1958 development of the Tc-99m generator at BNL
Tc99mDecay HyperPhysics/Nuclear - Tc 99m decay properties
MIR MIR Nuclear Medicine Teaching Case File