Re: F-18 production

["Michael P. Grissom" <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

To All,

This appears to be the method of F-18 production that 
our staff used at AFRRI using the TRIGA Mark V reactor 
sample irradiation system.

The personnel who had direct experience in designing the
process were then Major George Dunsen (sp.?) and then 
Captain Bob Eng (both Army radiation specialists, and 
both radiopharmaceutical chemists by training at the Ph.D. 
level, I believe).  The AFRRI TRIGA staff may have 
retained some information.  The current issue of the HP 
Journal contains a section by Bruce Busby listing 
radiobiology related Web sites and AFRRI is on that list.  
Perhaps a search on their Web site can produce specific
findings!

Good Luck,

MikeG.

At 02:22 PM 9/4/96 -0500, you wrote:
>If anyone has any information or fingers to point me in the right direction
>for the following problem, please do so:
>
>I am looking for some detailed information about the production of F-18 from
>irradiation of Li2CO3. Currently, the reaction that I know of is as follows:
>
>Li-6 (n , alpha) H3(tritium) with a Q-value of 4.78 MeV; the tritons emitted
>in the process produce F-18 following the O-16 (3H, n)F-18 reaction.

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Michael P. Grissom
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