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Appl Radiat Isot
; 53(3): 415-9, 2000 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-10972146
ABSTRACT
Previous analytical methods employed to measure 99Tc:99mTc ratios in chromatographic 99mTc generators, derived from fission-based 99Mo, were limited in monitoring the ratios in low activity generators, over the extent of their elution regimes. For regulatory purposes, ICP-MS was employed to measure total technetium in generator eluates down to a level of 200 pg ml(-1) (200 ppt). Measured 99Tc:99mTc ratios compared very well with the theoretically computed values, ranging from 47:1 for a first elution of a generator with a long ingrowth time to 1.4:1 for the 17th elution of a generator with a short ingrowth time.