An overview of (124)I production at a medical cyclotron by ALICE/ASH, EMPIRE-3.2.2 and TALYS-1.6 codes

Hamid Azizakram; Mahdi Sadeghi; Parviz Ashtari; Farhad Zolfagharpour

doi:10.1016/j.apradiso.2016.03.028

An overview of (124)I production at a medical cyclotron by ALICE/ASH, EMPIRE-3.2.2 and TALYS-1.6 codes

Appl Radiat Isot. 2016 Jun:112:147-55. doi: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2016.03.028. Epub 2016 Mar 29.

Authors

Hamid Azizakram¹, Mahdi Sadeghi², Parviz Ashtari³, Farhad Zolfagharpour¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, P.O. Box 179, Ardabil, Iran.
² Radiation Application Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, P.O. Box: 14395-836, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: msadeghi@nrcam.org.
³ Radiation Application Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, P.O. Box: 14395-836, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 27060194
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2016.03.028

Abstract

Excitation functions of proton, deuteron and alpha induced nuclear reactions on enriched tellurium and antimony isotopes and also natural antimony were calculated by ALICE/ASH, EMPIRE-3.2.2 and TALYS-1.6 nuclear codes. Therefrom, the production yield of (124)I nuclide and its formed impurities were calculated by using the evaluation results. The calculated cross sections were compared with available experimental values in literatures. According to results, (124)Te(p,n)(124)I reaction is the method of choice due to formation of higher amount of (124)I nuclide and low levels of (125)I as an major concern in (124)I production.

Keywords: (124)I; ALICE/ASH; EMPIRE-3.2.2; Excitation function; Production yield; TALYS-1.6.