. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 6.

Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2019 Feb 6;64(4):04TR01. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aaf4de

Table 1:

Estimated photon yield and expected dose in tissue from various radionuclides.

Radionuclide	Half-life [s]	Average emitted beta energy (E_mean) [MeV/decay]	Cerenkov yield, 400 – 800 nm [photons/decay]	Decay factor [decays/Bq]	Decay-adjusted Cerenkov yield [photons/Bq]
¹⁸F	6,582	0.242	1.32	9,478	12,511
⁶⁴Cu	45,723	0.060	0.56	36,278	25,605
⁶⁸Ga	4,070	0.735	33.9	5,861	198,688
⁸⁹Zr	282,240	0.198	2.29	406,426	646,330
⁹⁰Y	230,400	0.934	47.3	331,776	10,897,920