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Nagai, Yasuki*; Kawabata, Masako*; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*; Motoishi, Shoji*; Saeki, Hideya*; Motomura, Arata*; Minato, Futoshi; Ito, Masatoshi*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(4), p.044201_1 - 044201_10, 2022/04
Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:47.58(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Recently, Lu is considered as one of the most important medical RIs for treating neuroendocrine tumors. A plan to produce
Lu with high purity by using enriched
Yb samples with irradiation of deuteron beams in accelerators has been discussed. However, since the other Yb isotopes contained in the Yb sample interacts with deuterons, Lu isotopes other than
Lu are produced as impurities. Since the purity of
Lu is important for medical use, a method to evaluate the impurity of Lu has been required. In this study, we proposed a new method to estimate production yields of each Lu isotopes in Yb samples with arbitrary isotopic compositions by using excitation functions of Yb(
)Lu reactions and the particle transport calculation code PHITS. The method plays an important role in discussing the isotopic composition of enriched samples to produce high-purity
Lu using accelerators.
Kawabata, Masako*; Motoishi, Shoji*; Ota, Akio*; Motomura, Arata*; Saeki, Hideya*; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; Nagai, Yasuki*; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 330(3), p.913 - 922, 2021/12
Times Cited Count:8 Percentile:67.14(Chemistry, Analytical)Both Cu and
Cu are promising radionuclides in nuclear medicine. Production yields of these radionuclides were quantified by irradiating 55.4 g of natural zinc with accelerator neutrons. Clinically suitable
Cu and
Cu yields were estimated by experimental based numerical simulations using 100 g of enriched
Zn and
Zn, respectively, and elevated neutron fluxes from 40 MeV, 2 mA deuterons. A combined thermal- and resin-separation method was developed to isolate
Cu and
Cu from zinc, resulting in 73% separation efficiency and 97% zinc recovery. Such methods can provide large scale production of
Cu and
Cu for clinical applications.
Tsukada, Kazuaki; Nagai, Yasuki*; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Minato, Futoshi; Kawabata, Masako*; Hatsukawa, Yuichi*; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*; Watanabe, Satoshi*; Saeki, Hideya*; Motoishi, Shoji*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 89(3), p.034201_1 - 034201_7, 2020/03
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:17.95(Physics, Multidisciplinary)We found anomalously large yields of Ga,
Ga,
Zn and
Cu by neutron irradiation on a
ZnO sample in a polyethylene shield. Neutron beams are generated from the
Be(
) reaction for 50 MeV deuterons. The yields obtained were more than 20 times larger than those in the unshielded sample. On the other hand, the yields of
Ga,
Ga,
Zn and
Cu from a metallic
Zn sample and the yields of
Cu,
Ni and
Zn from the
ZnO and
Zn samples were almost insensitive to the shield conditions. This finding would provide us a unique capability of accelerator neutrons to simultaneously produce a large amount of several radioisotopes, including proton induced reaction products, by using a single sample. The experimental data were compared with the yields estimated by using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System and the result was discussed.
Tsukada, Kazuaki; Nagai, Yasuki*; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*; Kawabata, Masako*; Minato, Futoshi; Saeki, Hideya*; Motoishi, Shoji*; Ito, Masatoshi*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 87(4), p.043201_1 - 043201_5, 2018/04
Times Cited Count:10 Percentile:56.34(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Minato, Futoshi; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Sato, Nozomi*; Watanabe, Satoshi*; Saeki, Hideya*; Kawabata, Masako*; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Nagai, Yasuki*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 86(11), p.114803_1 - 114803_6, 2017/11
Times Cited Count:11 Percentile:58.95(Physics, Multidisciplinary)We have measured the yield of Mo, the mother nuclide of
Tc used in nuclear diagnostic procedure.
Mo was produced by
Mo(
,
)
Mo using neutrons with thermal energy up to about 40 MeV, provided by C(
,
). The
Mo yield agrees with an estimated yield with the use of the latest data of C(
,
) and the evaluated cross section given in the JENDL. Based on this, a new calculation was carried out to produce
Mo to seek for a good economical condition. Various conditions such as the
MoO
sample mass, the distance between the carbon target and the sample, the radius of the deuteron beam, and the neutron irradiation time were considered. The calculated
Mo yield indicates that about 30% of the
Mo demand in Japan can be fulfilled with a single accelerator. The elusion of
Tc from the
Mo twice per day would meet about 50% of the
Mo demand.
Sugo, Yumi*; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*; Kawabata, Masako*; Saeki, Hideya*; Sato, Shunichi*; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Nagai, Yasuki*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 86(2), p.023201_1 - 023201_3, 2017/02
Times Cited Count:15 Percentile:66.59(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Cu produced by the
Zn(
)
Cu reaction was used for the first time to determine the biodistribution of
CuCl
in colorectal tumor-bearing mice. High uptake of
Cu was observed in the tumor as well as in the liver and kidney which are the major organs for copper metabolism. The result showing
Cu accumulation in the tumor suggests that
CuCl
can be a potential radionuclide agent for cancer radiotherapy. It would also encourage further studies on the therapeutic effect in small animals using an increased dose of
Cu produced by the
Zn(
)
Cu reaction using intense neutrons available at present.
Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Nagai, Yasuki; Kawabata, Masako; Sato, Nozomi*; Hatsukawa, Yuichi; Saeki, Hideya; Motoishi, Shoji*; Ota, Masayuki; Konno, Chikara; Ochiai, Kentaro; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 84(4), p.043202_1 - 043202_4, 2015/04
Times Cited Count:8 Percentile:50.90(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Kawabata, Masako; Nagai, Yasuki; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Saeki, Hideya; Motoishi, Shoji*; Sato, Nozomi*; Ota, Akio*; Shiina, Takayuki*; Kawauchi, Yukimasa*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 84(2), p.023201_1 - 023201_4, 2015/02
Times Cited Count:6 Percentile:43.32(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Tc for medical use can be separated by thermochromatography from a molten
MoO
sample. Effect of moist oxygen gas on the
Tc release from molten
MoO
samples was investigated using a
Mo/
Tc generator.
Mo was produced with
Mo(n,2n)
Mo. A new phenomenon has been observed: release rate, separation- and recovery-efficiencies of
Tc were higher in the moist oxygen gas than those in the dry oxygen gas. The present result is a significant progress towards the stable production of a high quality
Tc from a molten MoO
sample with high separation efficiency. The result would also give us a new insight into the interaction between the moist oxygen gas and the molten MoO
.
Sato, Nozomi; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Watanabe, Satoshi; Ishioka, Noriko; Kawabata, Masako; Saeki, Hideya; Nagai, Yasuki; Kin, Tadahiro*; Minato, Futoshi; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 83(7), p.073201_1 - 073201_4, 2014/07
Times Cited Count:13 Percentile:62.40(Physics, Multidisciplinary)We have for the first time demonstrated that the therapeutic nuclide of Cu produced by
Zn(
,
)
Cu has highest radionuclide purity compared to previous ones. We measured a
-ray spectrum of the reaction product produced by bombarding an enriched
Zn sample with neutrons with a HPGe detector. The neutrons were obtained by
C(
,
) using 41 MeV deuterons provided from Takasaki Ion Accelerators for Advanced Radiation Application of Japan Atomic Energy Agency. Relative production yields of impurity radionuclides such as
Zn to
Cu are extremely low, which allow us to chemically separate
Cu from an irradiated
Zn sample with a few steps and to reuse high cost an enriched
Zn sample. The present result strongly suggest that the
Zn(
,
)
Cu reaction is the most promising route to produce high quality
Cu and could solve a longstanding problem of establishing an appropriate production method of
Cu.
Nagai, Yasuki; Kawabata, Masako; Sato, Nozomi; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Saeki, Hideya; Motoishi, Shoji*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 83(8), p.083201_1 - 083201_4, 2014/07
Times Cited Count:11 Percentile:58.43(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Nagai, Yasuki; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Hatsukawa, Yuichi; Saeki, Hideya; Motoishi, Shoji; Sonoda, Nozomi; Kawabata, Masako; Harada, Hideo; Kin, Tadahiro*; Tsukada, Kazuaki; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 82(6), p.064201_1 - 064201_7, 2013/06
Times Cited Count:46 Percentile:85.28(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Motoishi, Shoji; Kobayashi, Katsutoshi; Saeki, Hideya*
JAERI-Tech 2000-070, 34 Pages, 2000/12
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Tsukada, Kazuaki; Watanabe, Satoshi*; Ishioka, Noriko*; Hatsukawa, Yuichi*; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*; Sugo, Yumi*; Sato, Nozomi*; Kin, Tadahiro*; Kawabata, Masako*; Saeki, Hideya*; et al.
no journal, ,
A new system has been proposed for the generation of radioisotopes with accelerator neutrons by deuterons, especially the production of Mo-99, Y-90, Cu-67, and Cu-64. Enriched Mo-100, Zr-90, Zn-68 and Zn-64 oxide samples were irradiated with neutrons, which were obtained by the C(d,n) and Be(d,n) using 12 - 50 MeV deuterons provided from the TIARA cyclotron and the JAEA tandem accelerator. Mo-99, Y-90, Cu-67, and Cu-64 were successfully produced via the (n, x) reactions, and we clearly observed the
-rays. The present results demonstrate that the radioisotopes, Mo-99, Y-90, Cu-67, and Cu-64, can be produced by using fast neutrons, and strongly suggest that the reaction system is one of the most promising routes to produce high quality medical radioisotope.
Tsukada, Kazuaki; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*; Hatsukawa, Yuichi*; Kawabata, Masako*; Saeki, Hideya*; Minato, Futoshi; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; Nagai, Yasuki*; Sugo, Yumi*; Watanabe, Satoshi*; et al.
no journal, ,
no abstracts in English
Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Motoishi, Shoji*; Saeki, Hideya*; Sorita, Takami; Matsuoka, Hiromitsu
no journal, ,
Rhenium-188 is a useful generator-produced radioisotope for therapeutic applications because of their energetic beta particles and rays suitable for imaging. Because the
W parent is obtained in a relatively low specific activity from the irradiation of enriched
W in a reactor, relatively large volumes of normal saline are required to elute the
Re from alumina based
W/
Re generators. In this study, a simple apparatus for effective concentrations of 188Re solutions from alumina-based
W/
Re generators was developed by a tandem cation-anion column system. Concentration ratios greater than 50:1 can be achieved with this apparatus.
Nagai, Yasuki; Kawabata, Masako; Sato, Nozomi*; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Saeki, Hideya; Motoishi, Shoji*; Hatsukawa, Yuichi; Ota, Akio; Shiina, Takayuki; Kawauchi, Yukimasa
no journal, ,
Tc, the daughter nuclide of
Mo, is widely used for medical diagnosis. In Japan, about 0.9 million diagnostic procedures are carried out using
Tc.
Mo has been mostly produced using
U in research reactors. Because of recent shortages of
Mo, a variety of alternative production methods of
Mo or
Tc were proposed. We proposed to produce
Mo by
Mo(n,2n) using neutrons from an accelerator. The route is characterized to produce a large quantity of high-quality
Mo with a minimum level of radioactive wastes, since the cross section of the
Mo(n,2n)
Mo reaction at 11
En
18 MeV is large, and the cross sections of the (n,He), (n,n'p), and (n,p) reactions on
Mo are quite small. Intense neutrons are available because of recent progresses of accelerator and target technologies. In the talk, we show our recent experimental results to obtain
Tc with high-quality using
Mo produced by
Mo(n,2n).
Tsukada, Kazuaki; Sato, Tetsuya; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Saeki, Hideya; Hatsukawa, Yuichi; Nagai, Yasuki; Watanabe, Satoshi; Ishioka, Noriko; Takeda, Shinsaku*
no journal, ,
A new system has been proposed for the generation of radioisotopes with accelerator neutrons by deuterons, especially the production of Y (T
= 64 h), which has been used for the nuclear medicine. Enriched
Zr nitrate samples were irradiated with neutrons, which were obtained by the
C(d,n) using 40 MeV deuterons provided from the TIARA cyclotron.
Y was successfully produced via the (n, p) reaction, and separated from the Zr nitrate target by three columns method with a hydrochloric acid. After the purification, a labelling of DTPA with
Y had been performed. In this result, the yield was about 90% under
2.5
M of DTPA, although the yields were decreased at the DTPA concentration below 2.5
M.
Tsukada, Kazuaki; Sato, Nozomi*; Watanabe, Satoshi; Ishioka, Noriko; Hatsukawa, Yuichi; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Kin, Tadahiro*; Takeda, Shinsaku*; Kawabata, Masako; Saeki, Hideya; et al.
no journal, ,
A new system has been proposed for the generation of radioisotopes with accelerator neutrons by deuterons, especially the production of Mo-99, Y-90, Cu-67, and Cu-64. Enriched Mo-100, Zr-90, Zn-68 and Zn-64 oxide samples were irradiated with neutrons, which were obtained by the C(d,n) and Be(d,n) using 40 MeV deuterons provided from the TIARA cyclotron. Mo-99, Y-90, Cu-67, and Cu-64 were successfully produced via the (n, x) reactions, and we clearly observed the
-rays. Particularly, yields of impurity radionuclides were much smaller than that of Mo-99 and Cu-67, and therefore radioactive waste produced during chemical processing would be reduced compared with other proposed reaction systems. The present results demonstrate that the radioisotopes, Mo-99, Y-90, Cu-67, and Cu-64, can be produced by using fast neutrons, and strongly suggest that the reaction system is one of the most promising routes to produce high quality medical radioisotope.
Tsukada, Kazuaki; Nagai, Yasuki*; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*; Kawabata, Masako*; Minato, Futoshi; Saeki, Hideya*; Motoishi, Shoji*; Watanabe, Satoshi*; Ito, Masatoshi*
no journal, ,
no abstracts in English
Fujino, Shunsuke; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki; Saeki, Hideya*; Kawauchi, Yukimasa*; Kawabata, Masako*; Chiba, Yusuke
no journal, ,
Lutetium-177 (Lu-177)is a medical radioisotope used in approved radiopharmaceutical "Lutathera" to treat neuroendocrine tumours. And it is one of the promising radionuclides for new therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. However, Lu-177 is dependent on imports from overseas, and there are concerns that transportation problems etc. may affect domestic distribution and development of new pharmaceuticals. In order to confirm whether JAEA can produce a portion of the Lu-177 for research, we conducted a production test of Lu-177 using JRR-3.