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Radionuclide Dosimetric Data Sheets

Iridium-193m

Summary data

General

Classification

Isotope:  Ir-193m
Atomic number (Z):  77
Mass number (A):  193
Neutron number (N):  116

Radioactive decay

Decay modes:  Internal transition
Half-life:  10.53 [d]
Decay constant:  7.6187e-07 [1/s]
Daughters:  Ir-193 (100.0%)
Radioactive daughters:  None

Dosimetric constants

Mean alpha energy:  0.0 [MeV]
Mean electron energy:  0.0776 [MeV]
Mean photon energy:  0.00266 [MeV]
Air kerma rate constant, Γ102.530e-18 [Gy·m2/Bq·s]
Air kerma coefficient, Kair2.530e-18 [Gy·m2/Bq·s]
Equilibrium dose constant for weakly-penetrating radiations (α and/or electrons), Δwp1.243e-14 [Gy·kg/Bq·s]
Equilibrium dose constant for alphas, Δα0.000e+00 [Gy·kg/Bq·s]
Equilibrium dose constant for betas/electrons, Δβ-,β+,e-1.243e-14 [Gy·kg/Bq·s]
Equilibrium dose constant for photons, Δp4.262e-16 [Gy·kg/Bq·s]

Dose point kernels (plot)

Dose point kernel source:  Graves, et al. Medical Physics. 2019 Nov.; 46(11):5284-5293.

Note: Bins are spaced every 0.1 mm until a radius of 10 cm, and every 1 mm until a radius of 2 m.

Download tabulated dose point kernel file here:  www.mirdsoft.org/products/MIRDspecs/Ir-193m DPK.csv

Summary spectra (plot)

Spectra source:  ICRP Publication 107: Nuclear Decay Data for Dosimetric Calculations. Ann. ICRP 2008, 38 (3).

Download tabulated summary spectra file here:  www.mirdsoft.org/products/MIRDspecs/Ir-193m Summary Spectrum.csv

 

Tabulated data

Summary spectra (table)

Spectra source:  ICRP Publication 107: Nuclear Decay Data for Dosimetric Calculations. Ann. ICRP 2008, 38 (3).

Note: Radiations with yield < 0.01 are excluded from the table, but are available in the linked *.csv data.

Download tabulated summary spectra file here:  www.mirdsoft.org/products/MIRDspecs/Ir-193m Summary Spectrum.csv

 

Energy [MeV]

Yield [#/nt] if > 0.01

Radiation type

4.53478e-05

7.097e+00

X-ray

1.98857e-03

3.340e-02

X-ray

9.09081e-03

1.497e-02

X-ray

9.16921e-03

1.320e-01

X-ray

1.09194e-02

2.416e-02

X-ray

3.54639e-05

1.356e+00

Auger electron

1.69955e-04

2.337e+00

Auger electron

3.31780e-04

4.765e-01

Auger electron

3.52627e-04

9.986e-02

Auger electron

5.27527e-04

1.015e-01

Auger electron

1.63659e-03

1.141e+00

Auger electron

1.83563e-03

1.009e-01

Auger electron

6.75236e-03

3.328e-01

Auger electron

8.70243e-03

1.338e-01

Auger electron

1.06723e-02

1.319e-02

Auger electron

6.68240e-02

1.252e-01

Conversion electron

6.73610e-02

2.228e-02

Conversion electron

6.90060e-02

5.352e-01

Conversion electron

7.76810e-02

2.395e-01

Conversion electron

8.02200e-02

7.319e-02

Conversion electron

 

Useful Links

Isotope decay characteristics are periodically updated as better measurements can be made - changes that may not be reflected on this page. Please see useful links:

National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC):  https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat3/mird/

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Livechart:  https://www-nds.iaea.org/relnsd/vcharthtml/VChartHTML.html

Reference Links

ICRP Report 107: https://www.icrp.org/publication.asp?id=ICRP%20Publication%20107

Graves et al. Dose Point Kernels: https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.13789

MIRD Decay Schemes 2nd Edition: https://sites.snmmi.org/SNMMI-MAIN/iCore/Store/StoreLayouts/Item_Detail.aspx?iProductCode=0-932004-80-6

 

 

 

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