title: Production and modeling of radioactive gold nanoparticles in Tehran research reactor.
abstract: Gold has two medically useful radioactive isotopes,198Au and199Au, for locally irradiating and killing tumor cells.198Au radionuclide has been produced through the irradiation of the pure gold via197Au(n,γ)198Au reaction in the Tehran Research Reactor at a thermal neutron flux of 4.5×1013ncm-2s-1for the different irradiation times. In this paper, the activity of198Au radionuclide has been determined using MCNPX-2.6 and TALYS-1.6 codes and also the theoretical approach. The calculated results were compared with the corresponding experimental values. The calculated results were in good agreement with the experimental data, thus the used codes can be used as a powerful tool to predict and optimize production conditions in reactor.
authors: Department of Physics, Payam-e Noor University, P.O. Box: 19395-3697, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Seyedeh Fatemeh
authors: SF
authors: Hosseini
authors: Radiation Application Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, P.O. Box: 11365-8486, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: msadeghi@nrcam.org.
authors: Mahdi
authors: M
authors: Sadeghi
authors: Radiation Application Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute, P.O. Box: 11365-8486, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Mohammad Reza
authors: MR
authors: Aboudzadeh
authors: Department of Physics, Payam-e Noor University, P.O. Box: 19395-3697, Tehran, Iran.
authors: Morteza
authors: M
authors: Mohseni
keywords: Activity; Gold radionuclide; Monte Carlo; Reactor core