Abstract

Amongst various radionuclides of molybdenum, 90Mo and 99Mo have suitable β energy for clinical uses. In this paper we report separation of 99Mo from 99Mo-99mTc equilibrium mixture. The liquid–liquid extraction technique has been employed using trioctylamine (TOA) diluted in cyclohexane as organic phase and HCl as aqueous phase. At 10−5 M HCl and 0.5 M TOA concentration 99mTc quantitatively transferred to the organic phase leaving 99Mo in the aqueous phase. The developed separation method is efficient and provides very high separation factor.

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