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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.”
Sherif S. Nafee
Nuclear Technology | Volume 192 | Number 1 | October 2015 | Pages 84-90
Technical Note | Radiation Transport and Protection | doi.org/10.13182/NT14-89
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The progress of modern detector arrays was based on their good angular resolution, which has a great impact on gamma-ray spectroscopy with relativistic fragmentation beams and, thus, allows studies of the most exotic nuclei and discovery of superdeformed states of high spins. Recently, a fast timing array was designed for the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research for studying the very short-lived nuclei (of several subnanoseconds) at the extremes of existence. For this purpose, several gamma-ray detector array geometries were designed and simulated to maximize the solid angle and enhance the timing precision and efficiencies. Therefore, the probability correction approach has been applied in the present work to calibrate the newly designed gamma-ray conical array for the fast timing array. The calculated full-energy peak efficiency values for the array were compared to the simulated ones by the GEANT 4 code published in the literature. Results showed a reasonably low-percentage relative difference between the calculated and the reported simulated results <4.5% on average.