Trapping and re-use system for radioactive xenon in nuclear medicine
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 23 (1) , 77-89
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/23/1/007
Abstract
Different methods of trapping radioactive Xe were reviewed. Trapping by adsorption on activated charcoal had the advantage of being simple and cheap and made it possible to recycle the Xe. An activated charcoal trapping system was described which extracted 133Xe from 100 l of expired air in 10 min from patients undergoing diagnostic pulmonary or circulation studies. Details of the construction were discussed. Trapped gas was rapidly released and returned to the spirometer. Substantial reduction of costs can be achieved with 133Xe; this becomes even more important as accelerator-produced 127Xe comes into more general use.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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