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Radium needles that were once implanted into tumours as a cancer treatment are now obsolete and constitute a radioactive waste problem, as their half-life is 1600 years. The increasing application of Ac-225 for cancer therapy indicates the potential need for its increased production and availability. The reduction of radium by photonuclear transmutation by bombarding Ra-226 with high-energy photons from a medical linac has been investigated. The irradiated needles would then be processed to remove the Ac-225, which can then be used for Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT) of cancer.
The research in
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Produktbeschreibung
Radium needles that were once implanted into tumours
as a cancer treatment are now obsolete and constitute
a radioactive waste problem, as their half-life is
1600 years. The increasing application of Ac-225 for
cancer therapy indicates the potential need for its
increased production and availability. The reduction
of radium by photonuclear transmutation by bombarding
Ra-226 with high-energy photons from a medical linac
has been investigated. The irradiated needles would
then be processed to remove the Ac-225, which can
then be used for Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT) of
cancer.

The research in this monograph investigates the
possibility of producing of Ac-225 in commercial
quantities, which could potentially reduce obsolete
radioactive material and displace the need for
expensive importation of Ac-225 from the USA and
Russia in the years ahead. Scaled up production of
Ac-225 could theoretically be achieved by the use of
a high current cyclotron or linac.
Autorenporträt
Dr Graeme Melville has a MSc in Astrophysics, PhD in Nuclear
Physics and is Secretary of the Australian Institute of Physics.
He received a commendation from NASA for his planetary Astronomy
work.
Dr Melville is Editor in Chief of the international physics
journal Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics .
He was also a professional tennis player.