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Emerging Radioisotopes Less-commonly used but potentially interesting radioisotopes for which medical applications have been demonstrated

Radionuclide	T ½	Emax in MeV	Production route	R/A/Decay *
^64Cu	12.7 h	0.6 b^-	^63Cu(n, g)	R
		0.7 b^+	^64Ni(p, n)	A
			^64Ni(d, 2n)	A
			^64Zn(n, p)	R
			^64Zn(d, x)	A
^67Cu	2.6 d	0.6 b^-	^67Zn(n, p)	R
			^68Zn(p, 2p)	A
			^70Zn(p, a)	A
^67Ga	3.2 d	Auger electrons	^68Zn(p,2n)	A
			^67Zn(p,n)	A
^86Y	14.74 h	b^+	^86Sr(p, n)	A
^105Rh	35.4 h	b^-	^104Ru(n,g)^105Ru ® ^105Rh	R
^111In	2.8 d	Auger electrons	^111Cd (p, n)	A
			^111Cd(p, 2n)	A
^114mIn	2.8 d	Auger electrons	^114Cd (p, n)	A
			^114Cd(d, 2n)	A
			^116Cd(p, 3n)	A
^124I	4.2 d	2.1 b^+	^124Te(p, n)	A
			^124Te(d, 2n)	A
			^125Te(p, 2n)	A
^149Pm	2.12 d	b^-	^148Nd(n, g)^149Nd ® ^149Pm	R
^166Ho	26.8 h	1.9 b^-	^165Ho(n, g)	R
			^164Dy(n, g) ® ^165Dy(n, g) ® ^166Dy ® ^166Ho	R
^169Yb	32.0 d	Auger electrons	^168Yb(n, g)	R
			^169Tm(p, n)	A
^177Lu	6.7 d	0.5 b^-	^176Lu(n, g)	R
			^176Yb(n, g)^177Yb ® ^177Lu	R
^211At	7.2 h	5.9 a	^209Bi(a, 2n)	A
^213Bi	45.6 m	8.4 a	Decay of ^225Ac	D
^225Ac	10.0 d	5.8 a	^226Ra(p, 2n)	A
			decay of ^233U ® ^229Th	R,D