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. 2020 May 19;7:33. doi: 10.1186/s40658-020-00301-2

Table 1.

Decay characteristics of 177Lu and 161Tb

Radionuclide 177Lu 161Tb
Half-life (day) 6.647 6.906
Type of decay (%) β (100%) β (100%)
β particles mean energy (keV) 133.3 154.3
Daughter 177Hf (stable) 161Dy (stable)
CE (keV per decay) 13.52 39.28
CE energy range in keV (weighted average energy)a 6.2 – 206.3 (87) 3.3 – 98.3 (28)
AE (keV per decay) 1.13 8.94
AE energy range in keV (weighted average energy)a 0.01 – 61.7 (1) 0.018 – 50.9 (0.8)
Total electron energy per decay (keV) 147.9 202.5
γ for imaging: energy in keV (% abundance) 208 (11%); 113 (6.4%) 75 (10.2%)
Photons X and γ (total energy per decay in keV) 35.1 36.35

aThe weighted average energy was computed as i=1nEiwi/i=1nwi, where wi is the emission probability by nuclear transformation of an electron with energy Ei