Recent Advances in Nuclear Data Research for Medical Applications

Abstract

Nuclear procedures play an important role in medicine, both in diagnosis and therapy. The status of nuclear data relevant to production and application of standard diagnostic and therapeutic radionuclides is discussed. Some of the recent advances in nuclear data research are outlined and the new trends are described. They pertain to development of non-standard longer lived positron emitters and novel soft-radiation emitting therapeutic radionuclides. The formation of activation products in the human tissue under proton therapy conditions is discussed. PACS numbers: 29.85.+c, 87.57.-s