Detection of bremsstrahlung radiation of 90Sr-90Y for emergency lung counting

Detection of 90Y extravasation by bremsstrahlung imaging for patients undergoing 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan therapy.

UNLABELLED Extravasation of therapeutic (90)Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan can cause significant injury. Detection of extravasated (90)Y using a γ-camera for patients undergoing (90)Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan therapy is a challenge because of the inherently low efficiency of bremsstrahlung imaging and the interference of prompt and scattered photons from (111)In that are still present in the body at the ti...

Performance of different materials as TSEE dosimeters in 90Sr+90Y radiation fields

90Sr-90Y biokinetics at incorporation determine the radiation burden to bone marrow.

The decay characteristics of 90Sr-90Y ensure that the mother and daughter nuclides exist in radioactive equilibrium, unless they get discriminated on the basis of their chemical properties, as it happens during metabolism. Although bone is the ultimate organ of deposition, the two nuclides arrive at this target organ over different biokinetic pathways. As 90Y is not excreted, it goes through tr...

SPECT/CT 90Y-Bremsstrahlung images for dosimetry during therapy

BACKGROUND the characteristics of (90)Y, suitable for therapy, are denoted by the lack of γ-emission. Alternative methods, using analogues labelled with (111)In or (86)Y, are generally applied to image (90)Y-conjugates, with some inevitable drawbacks. New generation SPECT/CT image systems offer improved Bremsstrahlung images. The intent of this brief communication is to show that high quality (...

Time optimization of 90Sr determinations: sequential measurement of multiple samples during decay of 90Y

This work presents an optimized method for the determination of multiple samples containing 90Sr when its daughter 90Y is measured after chemical separation and in sequence, i.e. during its decay. Consequently the measurement times will increase for each subsequent sample, since there has been a longer time for decay before measurement. Compared to a previously published approach, when 90Y is m...