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McCarthy, Deborah W.; Shefer, Ruth E.; Klinkowstein, Robert E.; Bass, Laura A.; Margeneau, William H.; Cutler, Cathy S.; Anderson, Carolyn J.; Welch, Michael J. (1997). "Efficient production of high specific activity Cu using a biomedical cyclotron".
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Breeman, Wouter A. P.; Jong, Marion; Visser, Theo J.; Erion, Jack L.; Krenning, Eric P. (2003). "Optimising conditions for radiolabelling of DOTA-peptides with Y, In and Lu at high specific activities".
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and is a physical property of that radionuclide. It is usually given in units of becquerel per kilogram (Bq/kg), but another commonly used unit of specific activity is the curie per gram (Ci/g).
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Duursma, E. K. "Specific activity of radionuclides sorbed by marine sediments in relation to the stable element composition". Radioactive contamination of the marine environment (1973): 57–71.
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de Goeij, J. J. M.; Bonardi, M. L. (2005). "How do we define the concepts specific activity, radioactive concentration, carrier, carrier-free and no-carrier-added?".
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The specific activity of radionuclides is particularly relevant when it comes to select them for production for therapeutic pharmaceuticals, as well as for
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I. Weeks; I. Beheshti; F. McCapra; A. K. Campbell; J. S. Woodhead (August 1983). "Acridinium esters as high-specific-activity labels in immunoassay".
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Wessels, Barry W. (1984). "Radionuclide selection and model absorbed dose calculations for radiolabeled tumor associated antibodies".
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or other diagnostic procedures, or assessing radioactivity in certain environments, among several other biomedical applications.
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of the radionuclide is within a fraction of 1% of the molar mass expressed in g/mol and can be used as an approximation.
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effects into account, is consistent with a decay rate of 3200 decays per second corresponds to a specific activity of
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is defined as the length of time for half of a given quantity of radioactive atoms to undergo radioactive decay:
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Neves, M.; Kling, A.; Lambrecht, R. M. (2002). "Radionuclide production for therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals".
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Fetter, Steve; Cheng, E. T.; Mann, F. M. (1990). "Long-term radioactive waste from fusion reactors: Part II".
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Murray, A. S.; Marten, R.; Johnston, A.; Martin, P. (1987). "Analysis for naturally occuring [
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for a given radionuclide within a set time interval is fixed (with some slight exceptions, see
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Radioactivity is expressed as the decay rate of a particular radionuclide with decay constant
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defined as the number of radioactive transformations per second that occur in a particular
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This article is about specific activity radioactivity. For the use in biochemistry, see
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This value derived from radium-226 was defined as unit of radioactivity known as the
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Mausner, Leonard F. (1993). "Selection of radionuclides for radioimmunotherapy".
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is 87 g/mol, so one gram is 1/87 of a mole. Plugging in the numbers:
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Experimentally measured specific activity can be used to calculate the
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The specific activity should not be confused with level of exposure to
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Taking the natural logarithm of both sides, the half-life is given by
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is defined as radioactivity per unit mass of the radionuclide:
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radioactive decays per second. Another unit of activity is the
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Holland, Jason P.; Sheh, Yiauchung; Lewis, Jason S. (2009).
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When the unit of half-life is in years instead of seconds:
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Thus, specific radioactivity can also be described by
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Ra 226 radiation source. Activity 3300 Bq (3.3 kBq)
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may be too technical for most readers to understand
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The unit of activity is the 1: 3439:10.1016/S0969-8051(96)00157-6 3335:Fusion Engineering and Design 3201:10.1016/S0969-8043(02)00180-X 2720:629 TBq (17 kCi, or 629 MRd) 3427:Nuclear Medicine and Biology 3379:Nuclear Medicine and Biology 3358:10.1016/0920-3796(90)90104-E 3012:Resolutions of the 15th CGPM 2617:629 GBq (17 Ci, or 629 kRd) 2215:{\displaystyle N_{\text{A}}} 2053:{\displaystyle m_{\text{a}}} 1734:Example: half-life of Rb-87 1593:by the following equation: 3488: 3156:10.1093/clinchem/29.8.1474 327: 18: 2978:10.1007/s10967-005-0004-6 2927:10.1007/s00259-003-1142-0 819:of the radionuclide, and 312:Since the probability of 305:and thus the exposure or 88: 3472:Radioactivity quantities 2278:is the number of moles ( 1997:It has been merged from 350:and the number of atoms 2436:{\displaystyle t_{1/2}} 2092:{\displaystyle t_{1/2}} 840:Specific radioactivity 2437: 2391: 2318:can be calculated by: 2312: 2292: 2272: 2216: 2186: 2093: 2054: 2024: 1967: 1724: 1641: 1557: 1435: 1153: 1021: 938: 802: 716: 640: 575: 465: 403: 290:, which is defined as 2438: 2392: 2313: 2293: 2273: 2217: 2187: 2094: 2055: 2025: 1968: 1725: 1642: 1585:Where decay constant 1558: 1436: 1154: 1022: 939: 803: 717: 641: 576: 466: 404: 335:Relationship between 3014:(Resolution 8). 1975 2412: 2325: 2302: 2282: 2247: 2199: 2106: 2068: 2037: 2014: 1765: 1657: 1600: 1460: 1169: 1037: 954: 851: 737: 667: 591: 504: 423: 361: 318:changing decay rates 3244:1993MedPh..20..503M 3105:1984MedPh..11..638W 1957: billion years 1582:of a radionuclide. 830:. 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