Efficacy of 44Sc production from natural calcium

Excitation functions of proton-induced nuclear reactions on natCaCO3 up to 60 MeV

“…Recent research has demonstrated the therapeutic suitability of 47 Sc with the diagnostic analogue 44 Sc [1,2,3]. In practice there are almost more than 10 reactions are reported to produce 47 Sc which includes using both reactors and accelerators [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37] and by taking Ti, V or Ca as target materials. When it comes to accelerators, cyclotrons with proton beams are available in large numbers compared to other charged particle accelerator facilities.…”