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      The potential radio-immunotherapeutic α-emitter 227Th – part I: Standardisation via primary liquid scintillation techniques and decay progeny ingrowth measurements

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      Applied Radiation and Isotopes
      Elsevier BV

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          Thorium-227 is a potential therapeutic radionuclide for applications in targeted α-radioimmunotherapy for the treatment of various types of cancer. To provide nuclear medicine departments involved in Phase I clinical trials traceability to the SI unit of radioactivity (Bq), a standardisation of a radiochemically pure 227Th aqueous solution has been performed at the National Physical Laboratory. This was achieved via two primary liquid scintillation (LS) techniques -4π(LS)-γ digital coincidence counting (DCC) and 4π LS counting. These absolute techniques were supported by the indirect determination of the 227Th activity via the measurement of the ingrowth and decay rate of the decay progeny by both ionisations chambers and high purity germanium (HPGe) gamma-ray spectrometry. The results of the primary techniques were found to be consistent, both with each other (zeta score = 1.1) and to the decay progeny ingrowth measurements. An activity per unit mass of 20.726 (51) kBq g-1 was determined for the solution. A procedure has been developed that provided an effective separation of the 227Th from its decay progeny, which was shown by the effective time zero of the 227Th-223Ra nuclear chronometer measured by HPGe gamma-ray spectrometry.

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          Journal
          Applied Radiation and Isotopes
          Applied Radiation and Isotopes
          Elsevier BV
          09698043
          December 2018
          December 2018
          Article
          10.1016/j.apradiso.2018.12.012
          30583971
          b1d61396-1241-4b82-90cc-fd4b6ecdb0c5
          © 2018

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