![]() Still, this strategy provides a yield abundance of 99Mo up of ~ 6.1%, representing twice as much as for 131I ( IAEA, 2005). ![]() The global efforts to end civil use of weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU, ~ 95%) turned the focus toward low enriched uranium (LEU, < 20% 235U) which should rather be used for the production of 99Mo. Similar as for 90Y (see below) and 131I, nuclear reactors co-produce 99Mo as a fission product of 235U: 235U(n,f) 99Mo. ![]() Martina BenešováGerald Reischl, in Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences, 2021 Molybdenum-99 ( 99Mo)ĩ9Mo (T ½ = 2.747 d, β −: E ave = 443 keV, γ: 181 keV (6.0%) and 740 keV (12.2%)) gained importance particularly as mother radionuclide to 99mTc ( 99Mo/ 99mTc generator) which is applied in the majority of SPECT imaging studies performed nowadays.
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