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Standardisation of Rhenium-188 and determination of calibration factors for secondary standard and radionuclide
R Anuradha1, D B Kulkarni1, Leena Joseph1
1Radiation Safety Systems Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, 400 085, Mumbai, India.
Abstract:
The use of Rhenium-188 for various therapeutic applications in the field of nuclear medicine has increased in recent years due to its favourable properties like decay scheme, cost effective availability and easy chemistry. Two independent measuring setups were used to standardise 188Re radioactive solution. The modus operandi of standardisation was 4πβ-γ coincidence technique where the beta detection was done by proportional counting and liquid scintillation counting and the gamma detection was done by using NaI(Tl) detectors. The secondary standard, high pressure ionisation chamber type Centronic IG12, 20A was calibrated with the standardised 188Re solution and the sensitivity coefficient (pA MBq-1) was determined. To enhance the accuracy of the commercial radionuclide calibrator and to ensure that patients receive optimum dose of these radiopharmaceuticals, calibration number of the Capintec CRC-15β radionuclide calibrator was also verified. This paper presents the standardisation of 188Re radioactive solution by primary methods and calibration of BARC secondary standard ionisation chamber system and a Capintec CRC-15β radionuclide calibrator.
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