Bulletin of the American Physical Society
5th Joint Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan
Volume 63, Number 12
Tuesday–Saturday, October 23–27, 2018; Waikoloa, Hawaii
Session HA: Conference Experience for Undergraduates Poster Session (2:00pm - 3:45pm)
2:00 PM,
Friday, October 26, 2018
Hilton
Room: Grand Promenade
Abstract ID: BAPS.2018.HAW.HA.20
Abstract: HA.00020 : High-Precision γ-ray spectroscopy of the PET imaging agent 72As*
Presenter:
Emily J Gass
(State Univ of NY - Stony Brook)
Authors:
Emily J Gass
(State Univ of NY - Stony Brook)
Elizabeth McCutchan
(Brookhaven Natl Lab)
Kathryn McKillop
(Hamilton College)
Alejandro A Sonzogni
(Brookhaven Natl Lab)
R J Nickels
(University of Wisconsin)
Paul A Ellison
(University of Wisconsin)
John P Greene
(Argonne Natl Lab)
Michael P Carpenter
(Argonne Natl Lab)
M Gott
(Argonne Natl Lab)
Shaofei Zhu
(Argonne National Laboratory)
Christopher J Lister
(Univ of Mass - Lowell)
Radioisotopes are used for imaging or therapeutic purposes in millions of procedures annually. The future of nuclear medicine is to pair a therapeutic agent with a positron emitting isotope to perform simultaneous PET imaging of the therapy agent. One of the most promising new theranostic pairs is 72As. The decay of 72As was last studied in 1971 using a primitive Ge detector system. To provide higher-quality decay data, a source of 72As was assayed at Argonne National Laboratory with the Gammasphere array. This allowed previously-observed cascades to be confirmed and new γ-rays to be identified. The revised level scheme and high-precision intensities will be presented and their impact on the dose of γ and β radiation will be discussed.
*Work supported by the DOE Office of Nuclear Physics, Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886 and under the BNL Supplemental Undergraduate Research Program (SURP).
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2018.HAW.HA.20
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