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Radionuclide Dosimetric Data Sheets

Antimony-124

Summary data

General

Classification

Isotope:  Sb-124
Atomic number (Z):  51
Mass number (A):  124
Neutron number (N):  73

Radioactive decay

Decay modes:  β-
Half-life:  60.2 [d]
Decay constant:  1.3326e-07 [1/s]
Daughters:  Te-124 (100.0%)
Radioactive daughters:  None

Dosimetric constants

Mean alpha energy:  0.0 [MeV]
Mean electron energy:  0.38311 [MeV]
Mean photon energy:  1.85311 [MeV]
Air kerma rate constant, Γ106.323e-17 [Gy·m2/Bq·s]
Air kerma coefficient, Kair6.323e-17 [Gy·m2/Bq·s]
Equilibrium dose constant for weakly-penetrating radiations (α and/or electrons), Δwp6.138e-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-6.138e-14 [Gy·kg/Bq·s]
Equilibrium dose constant for photons, Δp2.969e-13 [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/Sb-124 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/Sb-124 Summary Spectrum.csv

Beta spectra (plot)

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

Download tabulated beta spectra file here:  www.mirdsoft.org/products/MIRDspecs/Sb-124 Beta 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/Sb-124 Summary Spectrum.csv

 

Energy [MeV]

Yield [#/nt] if > 0.01

Radiation type

1.36107e-05

7.679e-02

X-ray

6.02728e-01

9.826e-01

Gamma

6.45854e-01

7.456e-02

Gamma

7.09320e-01

1.360e-02

Gamma

7.13781e-01

2.287e-02

Gamma

7.22784e-01

1.081e-01

Gamma

9.68199e-01

1.892e-02

Gamma

1.04513e+00

1.841e-02

Gamma

1.32551e+00

1.588e-02

Gamma

1.35518e+00

1.043e-02

Gamma

1.36816e+00

2.623e-02

Gamma

1.43656e+00

1.222e-02

Gamma

1.69098e+00

4.779e-01

Gamma

2.09094e+00

5.512e-02

Gamma

5.81421e-02

8.904e-02

Beta

1.93770e-01

5.216e-01

Beta

2.91772e-01

3.889e-02

Beta

3.24462e-01

2.040e-02

Beta

5.93062e-01

4.804e-02

Beta

6.27001e-01

2.583e-02

Beta

9.18266e-01

2.241e-01

Beta

2.29207e-05

3.752e-02

Auger electron

2.49344e-05

1.250e-02

Auger 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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