. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 21.

Published in final edited form as: Dalton Trans. 2011 Mar 4;40(23):6068–6076. doi: 10.1039/c0dt01387k

Table 1.

Selected Therapeutic Radionuclides

Radionuclide	Half-life (h)	Imaging decay	RIT decay	E_max (MeV)	Production
²¹²Pb	10.64	γ	β⁻ EC	0.57	²²⁴Ra/²¹²Pb generator
²¹²Bi	1.01	γ	α β⁻ EC	6.09 6.05	²²⁸Pb/²¹²Pb generator
²¹³Bi	0.76	γ	α β⁻ EC	5.87 5.55	²²⁸Th/²¹²Pb generator
²²⁵Ac	240.00	γ	α EC	5.83 5.79	n-capture of ²³²Th→²²⁵Ac or ²²⁶Ra(p,2n)²²⁵Ac
²¹¹At	7.21	γ	α EC	5.87	²⁰⁹Bi (α, 2n)²¹¹At