Nuclear model calculation for production of 18F, 22Na, 44,46sc, 54mn, 64cu, 68Ga, 76Br and 90Y radionuclides used in medical applications

Abstract

The nuclear data for production of the radionuclides F-18, Na-22,Sc-44, (SC)-S-46, Mn-64, Cu-64, Ga-68, Br-76 and Y-99 via (d, alpha) reactions on Ne-20, Mg-24, Ti-46, Ti-48, Fe-56, Zn-66,Ge-70, Kr-78 and Zr-92 target materials, respectively, have been investigated for incident deuteron energy up to 30 MeV. The calculations performed to obtain these nuclear data were based on the equilibrium Weisskopf-Ewing (WE), the pre-equilibrium hybrid and the geometry dependent hybrid (GDH) models of nuclear reactions. ALICE/ASH code is used to define the shape of excitation functions and the results obtained from the calculations are discussed and compared with existing experimental values and TENDL library data. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.