Electron-tracking Compton camera imaging of technetium-95m

Imaging was conducted using an electron tracking-Compton camera (ETCC), which measures γ-rays with energies in the range of 200–900 keV from (95m)Tc. (95m)Tc was produced by the (95)Mo(p, n)(95m)Tc reaction on a (95)Mo-enriched target. A method for recycling (95)Mo-enriched molybdenum trioxide was e...

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Autores principales: Hatsukawa, Yuichi, Hayakawa, Takehito, Tsukada, Kazuaki, Hashimoto, Kazuyuki, Sato, Tetsuya, Asai, Masato, Toyoshima, Atsushi, Tanimori, Toru, Sonoda, Shinya, Kabuki, Shigeto, Kimura, Hiroyuki, Takada, Atsushi, Mizumoto, Tetsuya, Takaki, Seiya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6287828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30532248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208909
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Sumario:Imaging was conducted using an electron tracking-Compton camera (ETCC), which measures γ-rays with energies in the range of 200–900 keV from (95m)Tc. (95m)Tc was produced by the (95)Mo(p, n)(95m)Tc reaction on a (95)Mo-enriched target. A method for recycling (95)Mo-enriched molybdenum trioxide was employed, and the recycled yield of (95)Mo was 70%-90%. Images were obtained with the gate of three energies. The results showed that the spatial resolution increases with increasing γ-ray energy, and suggested that the ETCC with high-energy γ-ray emitters such as (95m)Tc is useful for the medical imaging of deep tissue and organs in the human body.

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