Researchers in Japan are developing world-leading expertise in making and using the alpha particle emitter, astatine-211 (211 At), which has potential for use as a strong radionuclide therapy for ...
IN 1940, we prepared the isotope of mass 211 of element 85 by bombarding bismuth with alpha particles accelerated in the 60-in. cyclotron of the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California 1.