Abstract
Cross-sections for the residual radionuclide productions by proton-induced activation on natural molybdenum were measured up to 40MeV by using a stacked-foil technique at the MC50 cyclotron of the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences (KIRAMS). This work has given a new data set for the formation of the investigated radionuclides. The present results for most of the radionuclides showed in general good agreement with the earlier reported data as well as the theoretical data taken from the calculations based on the ALICE-IPPE code. The integral yields for thick targets were also deduced from the measured cross-sections of the produced radionuclides. The optimum production of the 99mTc radionuclide with minimum impurities can be obtained at the energy ranges from 10 to 23MeV, where the production yields were obtained as 597.15MBqμA−1h−1 at saturation. The measured cross-sections are used for production of medically important radionuclides such as 99mTc, 94mTc and 93m,gTc by using the medium-energy cyclotrons.
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