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. 2022 Dec 26;15(1):70. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15010070

Table 1.

68Ga production with PETtrace Cyclotron with 68Zn irradiation. Included yield activity at EOB and EOP.

Target Preparation Nominal Proton
Energy
Irradiation
Parameters
EOB (GBq) Specific Activity (GBq/μg) Saturation Yield (GBq/μA) EOP (GBq) Ref.
Target material: Electroplated on a platinum disc
Dimension: 7.0 mm
68Zn mass: 104.1 ± 2.7 mg
14.5 MeV Current: 30 μA Time: 60 min 60.9 ± 1.8 NR 2.72 ± 0.08 NR [22]
Target material: Electroplated on a platinum backing
Dimension: 10.0 mm
68Zn mass: 35.3 ± 2.2 mg
14.5 MeV with 320 μm aluminium degrader foils Current: 35 μA Time: 8.5 min 6.3 ± 0.4 2530 1.26 ± 0.08 3.7 ± 0.18 [38]
Target material: Electroplated water-cooled silver backing
Dimension: 10.0 mm
68Zn mass: 300 mg
13.0 MeV on target. helium-cooled aluminium foil energy degrader Current: 80 µA Time: 120 min >370 NR NR 194 [31]
Target material: Foil
Dimension: 15.5 mm
68Zn mass: ~140 mg
12.6 MeV with 500 μm aluminium energy degrader Current: 25 μA Time: 68 min 31 ± 1 1209 ± 18 2.48 ± 0.06 18 ± 2 [34]
Target material: Electroplated on a silver backing
Dimension: ~10.0 mm
68Zn mass: 216 ± 10 mg
13.0 MeV with 500 μm aluminum foil degrader Current: 80 μA
Time: 102 min
370 NR 7.1 175.2 [39]

NR—Not reported.