Medical Radioisotope Production in a Power-Flattened ADS Fuelled with Uranium and Plutonium Dioxides

Table 3

Usage areas and reactions of the produced radioisotopes.

Radioisotope	Half-life	Usage areas
^64Cu	12.7 hours	Radiopharmaceuticals for PET (positron emission tomography) imaging of cancer
^198Au	2.69 days	Treatment of cancer of prostate and bladder; for reduction of fluid accumulation secondary to cancer
^60Co	5.27 years	Modern radiation therapy and industrial radiography
^166Ho	26.77 hours	Medical radiotherapeutic applications, radioembolization for the treatment of patients with liver metastases
^170Tm	128.6 days	X-ray source for cancer therapy with brachytherapy
^186Re	3.7183 days	Radiotherapy, bone pain palliation
^197Hg	64.128 hours	Scanning kidneys
^103Pd	16.991 days	Treatment of prostate cancer
^204Tl	3.78 years	Myocardial perfusion scans
^99Mo	65.94 hours	Tc generators
Tc; →	6 hours	Imaging of the skeleton, heart muscle, brain, thyroid, lungs, liver, spleen, kidney, gall bladder, bone marrow, salivary, lacrimal glands, heart blood pool, and infection
^90Y	64.053 hours	Cancer brachytherapy and as silicate colloid for the relieving of the pain of arthritis in larger synovial joints.