Re: Re(2): Radionuclide impurities in Therapeutic Dosages

[Richard Smart <R.Smart@unsw.edu.au>]

At 05:36 PM 5.11.96 -0600, Franz Schoenhofer wrote:

>
>The radionuclide Ga-57 is produced by accelerators. The long lived and
>unwanted impurities have to be kept to a minimum by optimizing the
>accelerator production as to the irradiation time and the energy of the
>beam. But Ga-57 is used very seldom now.
>

I think you mean Ga-67.   And Ga-67 continues to be widely used.

However your comments on radionuclide impurities of Tl-201 and I-125 are correct

Richard Smart PhD
Department of Nuclear Medicine
St. George Hospital
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