Towards Radionuclide Cancer Therapy /Production of High Purity ¹⁷⁷Lu from ¹⁷⁶Yb — JPS Hot Topics

Research professor Yasuki NAGAI, professor Masatoshi ITOH (Division of Accelerator), and their colleagues published a paper in Apr. 2022 to JPSJ (Journal of the Physical Society of Japan), and the paper was selected as a Editors’ choice. In addition, it was introduced in JPS Hot Topics on Jun. 3rd, 2022.

This research result provides necessary information for the cancer therapy with ¹⁷⁷Lu in a near future.

• Published paper: Estimated Isotopic Compositions of Yb in Enriched ¹⁷⁶Yb for Producing ¹⁷⁷Lu with High Radionuclide Purity by ¹⁷⁶Yb(d,x)¹⁷⁷Lu, Y. Nagai et al., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 91, 044202 (2022).
• JPS Hot Topics web page: Towards Radionuclide Cancer Therapy with High Purity ¹⁷⁷Lu from Enriched ¹⁷⁶Yb Samples, JPS Hot Topics 2, 018.