New developments in the experimental data for charged particle production of medical radioisotopes

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental advancements in nuclear data for medically important radioisotopes, focusing on production improvements, generator isotopes, heavy alpha-emitters, and rare-earth elements over the past three years.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent experimental developments in nuclear data relevant to medical radioisotope production, highlighting key areas of progress.

Findings

Improved nuclear data accuracy for Mo/Tc generators

Advances in heavy alpha-emitter data

Enhanced understanding of rare-earth isotope production

Abstract

The goal of the present work is to give a review of developments achieved experimentally in the field of nuclear data for medically important radioisotopes in the last three years. The availability and precision of production related nuclear data is continuously improved mainly experimentally. This review emphasizes a couple of larger fields: the Mo/Tc generator problem and the generator isotopes in general, heavy alpha-emitters and the rare-earth elements. Other results in the field of medical radioisotope production are also listed.