A new publication entitled “Ag-111 phantom images with Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging and digital autoradiography within the ISOLPHARM project” have just been published in the journal Applied Radiation and Isotopes. This paper describes the imaging experiments performed with phantoms filled with Ag-111 produced at LENA in Pavia and imaged by the Bruker In-Vivo Xtreme device at…
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The ISOLPHARM project 2023 annual meeting was held at the Legnaro National Laboratories of INFN on December 21st. The four Work Packages of ADMIRAL experiment presented their progress according to the planned milestones. All contributions are available on the event’s Indico page. Thanks to all the partecipants!
The ISOLPHARM chemistry group obtained a new publication entitled “Chromatographic separation of silver-111 from neutron-irradiated palladium target: toward direct labeling of radiotracers” in the journal EJNMMI Radiopharmacy and Chemistry. Congratulations to all the people involved in this research campaign!
Four master students of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padova graduated in September with theses projects developed within the ISOLPHARM project. Nicola Zancopè analyzed and interpreted CLI and DRI images in view of a Ag-111 biodistribution experiment. Vittoria Pavanello studied the performance of the novel 2D imaging beta detector of…
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ISOLPHARM earned a Special Mention at the 108th Congress of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) thanks to the communication “Radiobiological model for β-emitter radiopharmaceutical therapy in dynamic cell cultures in the framework of the ISOLPHARM project”, presented by Alberto Arzenton. The contribution, that was included in the Biophysics and Medical Physics section, has been published…
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We are glad to announce that the research activities regarding the production and the separation of Ag-111 have been acknowledged with two new papers. The first one, entitled “Production and characterization of Ag-111 radioisotope for medical use in a TRIGA Mark II nuclear research reactor”, was published by Applied Radiation and Isotopes, while the second…
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We are happy to announce the publication of two new papers regarding the work of our laser group. The first one, entitled “Laser photo-ionization study of natAg using opto-galvanic signal at SPES offline laser lab”, was published by the Journal of Instrumentation, while the second one, “Resonant laser lonization and fine-structure study of silver in…
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The SPES-ISOLPHARM laser group took part to the 6th International Conference Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies (ICFDT6), organized by ENEA and INFN in Frascati (Italy) from 19th to 21st October 2022. ICFDT6 was an interdisciplinary conference, hosting scientists and engineers involved in high energy and accelerator physics and technology, nuclear fusion plasmas, space and astrophysics research,…
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During the last week, the collaboration has successfully tested the IRIS (ISOLPHARM Radionuclide Implantation Station) device. The system was coupled and aligned with the SPES Offline beamline in order to perform the first stable beam deposition using this device. The first test was performed using a stable copper beam. The importance of these experiments is…
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We are happy to announce the publication of our new free database of voxel S-values calculated with GEANT4.
