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Review
. 2022 Aug 19;27(16):5294.
doi: 10.3390/molecules27165294.

Production Review of Accelerator-Based Medical Isotopes

Yiwei Wang  1 , Daiyuan Chen  1 , Ricardo Dos Santos Augusto  2 , Jixin Liang  3 , Zhi Qin  4 , Juntao Liu  1   5 , Zhiyi Liu  1   5
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Review

Production Review of Accelerator-Based Medical Isotopes

Yiwei Wang et al. Molecules. .

Abstract

The production of reactor-based medical isotopes is fragile, which has meant supply shortages from time to time. This paper reviews alternative production methods in the form of cyclotrons, linear accelerators and neutron generators. Finally, the status of the production of medical isotopes in China is described.

Keywords: accelerator; medical isotope production; nuclear medicine; review.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Process for the application of medical isotopes.
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Figure 2
A comparison of the number of cyclotrons in the world and the number of reactors reported by the IAEA [43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57].
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Figure 3
Integral physical thick target yields for the 68Zn (p, 2p) 67Cu reaction [157].
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