18FDG production in a PET imaging using a proton flux produced by D-D fusion reaction

Abstract

Fluorine 18-deoxyglucose (18FDG) is often used in Positron Emission Tomography (PET). PET imaging is one of the useful tool which is used to cancer detection and management. PET growth is limited due to problems that depend on the production of Fluorine-18.Imaging results are strongly dependent on the information of nuclear reaction cross section data. This study is done to calculate the stopping power, RCSDA, simulated and distributed absorbed dose of F-18, in water. In order to access these goals, we use the Geant4/Gate simulation and the Bethe-Bloch theory model. The results of this simulation and this theory model are in good agreement with each other .The main point of this paper is the presentation of a theoretical approach to the production of Fluorine-18 by using protons production through the main nuclear fusion reaction and the side fusion reaction uses helium-3 as a catalyzed.

Keywords

• Key words: Fluorine-18
• fusion
• stopping power
• absorbed dose
• proton