Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8208528 | Applied Radiation and Isotopes | 2018 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
Astatine-211 is a promising radionuclide for targeted radiotherapy. It is required to image the distribution of targeted radiotherapeutic agents in a patient's body for optimization of treatment strategies. We proposed to image 211At with high-energy photons to overcome some problems in conventional planar or single-photon emission computed tomography imaging. We performed an imaging experiment of a point-like 211At source using a Compton camera, and demonstrated the capability of imaging 211At with the high-energy photons for the first time.
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Authors
Yuto Nagao, Mitsutaka Yamaguchi, Shigeki Watanabe, Noriko S. Ishioka, Naoki Kawachi, Hiroshi Watabe,