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First astatine-labeled compound shipped in the U.S.
The Department of Energy’s National Isotope Development Center (NIDC) on March 31 announced the successful long-distance shipment in the United States of a biologically active compound labeled with the medical radioisotope astatine-211 (At-211). Because previous shipments have included only the “bare” isotope, the NIDC has described the development as “unleashing medical innovation.”
Kunihito Yamauchi, Kazuki Ogasawara, Masato Watanabe, Akitoshi Okino, Yoshitaka Sunaga, Eiki Hotta
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 39 | Number 3 | May 2001 | Pages 1182-1187
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST01-A171
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Experimental results of spherical glow discharge for a portable neutron source are presented. An experimental device consisting of a 45-cm-diam, 31-cm-high stainless steel cylindrical chamber was constructed in which a spherical mesh-type 30-cm-diam anode was installed. A spherical grid cathode made of 1.2-mm-diam stainless steel wire was made into a 7-cm-diam open spherical grid. The system was maintained at a constant pressure of 1 to 15 mTorr by feeding hydrogen or deuterium gas. The visible and ultraviolet emissions from the device were measured using the spectroscopic method. Strong emission lines of hydrogen were observed, and all hydrogen lines were broadened, remarkably, by Doppler and/or Stark effects. From these data, beam ion velocity, electron density and temperature of the core plasma were estimated. Using deuterium gas, a steady-state neutron production rate of 104 s-1 was observed at a discharge of 40 kV, 2 mA. In the low-current region of several milliamperes, the neutron production rate was proportional to the discharge current to the power from ~1.1 to 1.4. The beam-background reactions were dominant in the measured range of voltage and current.