Electron-tracking Compton camera imaging of technetium-95m.

Autor: Yuichi Hatsukawa, Takehito Hayakawa, Kazuaki Tsukada, Kazuyuki Hashimoto, Tetsuya Sato, Masato Asai, Atsushi Toyoshima, Toru Tanimori, Shinya Sonoda, Shigeto Kabuki, Hiroyuki Kimura, Atsushi Takada, Tetsuya Mizumoto, Seiya Takaki
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 12, p e0208909 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208909
Popis: Imaging was conducted using an electron tracking-Compton camera (ETCC), which measures γ-rays with energies in the range of 200-900 keV from 95mTc. 95mTc was produced by the 95Mo(p, n)95mTc reaction on a 95Mo-enriched target. A method for recycling 95Mo-enriched molybdenum trioxide was employed, and the recycled yield of 95Mo 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 95mTc is useful for the medical imaging of deep tissue and organs in the human body.
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