| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 292, 2024
16th Varenna Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms (NRM2023)
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 12001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Facilities and Data | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429212001 | |
| Published online | 14 March 2024 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429212001
Medical radionuclide research activities at JRC-Geel
1 European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium
2 European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Westerduinweg 3, 1755 LE Petten, Netherlands
3 European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Via Enrico Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
* e-mail: Andrea.TSINGANIS@ec.europa.eu
Published online: 14 March 2024
A programme to study photon- and neutron-induced reactions of medical interest, as well as accelerator-based methods of medical radionuclide production, has been instituted at JRC-Geel, making use of both existing and new infrastructure. A new electron beamline that can deliver quasi-monoenergetic beams has been commissioned at the GELINA electron linac and will be primarily dedicated to the study of photonuclear reactions and for medical radioisotope production studies via photon irradiation. The recently renewed MONNET 3.5 MV Tandem accelerator provides light ion beams for reactionbased quasi-mono-energetic neutron production and has been used for the study of 99Mo production via neutron irradiation of molybdenum nanoparticles. In this work we present an overview of the medical radionuclide activities at JRCGeel, with particular attention to aspects of the design, development and operational challenges of the new GELINA electron beamline. Some future perspectives of the programme are also discussed.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2024
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.