Overall Context:

• “Meeting Isotope Needs and Capturing Opportunities for the Future: The 2015 Long Range Plan for the DOE-NP Isotope Program”

General Information about Isotopes and Astatine

• “Medical Isotope Production and Use“, talk by Darrel Fisher, Washington State University
• M. Zalutsky and M. Pruszynski, “Astatine-211: Production and Availability“.
  • Very nice overview of the process for producing Astatine
• D.S. Wilbur, “Astatine-211Distribution: A Long Time Coming“.
• E. Balkin, et al, “Evaluation of a Wet Chemistry Method for Isolation of Cyclotron Produced 211-At”
  • Nice description of the chemistry
  • Good supporting references

Target information

• R. Larson, B. Wieland, M. Zalutsky, “Evaluation of an internal cyclotron target for the production of 211At via the 209Bi(a,2n)211At reaction“.
  • Description of the Duke target

FOAs

• DE-FOA-0001982
  • Due 11/30/18