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Radionuclide Dosimetric Data Sheets

Technetium-105

Summary data

General

Classification

Isotope:  Tc-105
Atomic number (Z):  43
Mass number (A):  105
Neutron number (N):  62

Radioactive decay

Decay modes:  β-
Half-life:  7.6 [m]
Decay constant:  1.5201e-03 [1/s]
Daughters:  Ru-105 (100.0%)
Radioactive daughters:  Ru-105

Dosimetric constants

Mean alpha energy:  0.0 [MeV]
Mean electron energy:  1.27082 [MeV]
Mean photon energy:  0.79812 [MeV]
Air kerma rate constant, Γ103.000e-17 [Gy·m2/Bq·s]
Air kerma coefficient, Kair3.000e-17 [Gy·m2/Bq·s]
Equilibrium dose constant for weakly-penetrating radiations (α and/or electrons), Δwp2.036e-13 [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-2.036e-13 [Gy·kg/Bq·s]
Equilibrium dose constant for photons, Δp1.279e-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/Tc-105 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/Tc-105 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/Tc-105 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/Tc-105 Summary Spectrum.csv

 

Energy [MeV]

Yield [#/nt] if > 0.01

Radiation type

8.90642e-06

4.866e+00

X-ray

2.54865e-03

1.167e-02

X-ray

1.91152e-02

4.793e-02

X-ray

1.92483e-02

9.093e-02

X-ray

2.05500e-02

1.570e-02

Gamma

2.16277e-02

1.484e-02

X-ray

7.53000e-02

2.198e-02

Gamma

8.25460e-02

4.239e-02

Gamma

1.07945e-01

1.413e-01

Gamma

1.38446e-01

4.239e-02

Gamma

1.43260e-01

1.570e-01

Gamma

1.57820e-01

2.638e-02

Gamma

1.59528e-01

1.021e-01

Gamma

2.08900e-01

1.319e-02

Gamma

2.13600e-01

1.319e-02

Gamma

2.25600e-01

2.936e-02

Gamma

2.52000e-01

5.809e-02

Gamma

2.72600e-01

3.454e-02

Gamma

3.03200e-01

1.209e-02

Gamma

3.04500e-01

1.052e-02

Gamma

3.05500e-01

1.099e-02

Gamma

3.07000e-01

1.021e-02

Gamma

3.21500e-01

1.115e-01

Gamma

3.22300e-01

1.570e-02

Gamma

3.58300e-01

2.512e-02

Gamma

4.41900e-01

1.758e-02

Gamma

4.45900e-01

1.617e-02

Gamma

4.62800e-01

4.396e-02

Gamma

4.66300e-01

1.491e-02

Gamma

4.80100e-01

1.491e-02

Gamma

4.90600e-01

2.355e-02

Gamma

5.65100e-01

1.319e-02

Gamma

5.77900e-01

2.355e-02

Gamma

6.04600e-01

1.099e-02

Gamma

6.08500e-01

2.355e-02

Gamma

6.40200e-01

2.638e-02

Gamma

6.46300e-01

1.178e-02

Gamma

6.98000e-01

1.570e-02

Gamma

7.39300e-01

1.617e-02

Gamma

7.57000e-01

1.178e-02

Gamma

8.24300e-01

1.178e-02

Gamma

8.96000e-01

1.570e-02

Gamma

9.14500e-01

3.768e-02

Gamma

1.00840e+00

1.758e-02

Gamma

1.20160e+00

1.178e-02

Gamma

1.36630e+00

3.234e-02

Gamma

1.51060e+00

2.355e-02

Gamma

1.56010e+00

2.041e-02

Gamma

2.05390e+00

1.491e-02

Gamma

2.08200e+00

1.491e-02

Gamma

2.15540e+00

2.198e-02

Gamma

4.51429e-01

1.809e-02

Beta

4.84724e-01

1.713e-02

Beta

5.59704e-01

2.951e-02

Beta

6.99423e-01

1.142e-02

Beta

7.04192e-01

1.076e-01

Beta

9.36674e-01

1.333e-02

Beta

1.13346e+00

1.685e-02

Beta

1.14124e+00

3.808e-02

Beta

1.17046e+00

1.999e-02

Beta

1.17918e+00

1.123e-02

Beta

1.18702e+00

2.189e-02

Beta

1.20215e+00

2.951e-02

Beta

1.25524e+00

3.998e-02

Beta

1.28425e+00

1.047e-02

Beta

1.28633e+00

3.046e-02

Beta

1.32751e+00

2.380e-02

Beta

1.33897e+00

3.332e-02

Beta

1.35052e+00

2.475e-02

Beta

1.40742e+00

8.567e-02

Beta

1.43060e+00

4.569e-02

Beta

1.44308e+00

1.142e-01

Beta

1.48219e+00

7.615e-02

Beta

1.48431e+00

4.855e-02

Beta

1.50864e+00

3.808e-02

Beta

1.55989e+00

8.567e-02

Beta

3.13597e-05

2.029e+00

Auger electron

1.11061e-04

2.311e-01

Auger electron

1.11197e-04

4.425e-01

Auger electron

2.32522e-04

1.114e+00

Auger electron

2.16750e-03

3.884e-01

Auger electron

2.48090e-03

6.670e-02

Auger electron

1.61570e-02

3.023e-02

Auger electron

1.73461e-02

2.217e-01

Conversion electron

1.75782e-02

1.740e-02

Conversion electron

1.86981e-02

1.163e-02

Auger electron

2.00907e-02

4.532e-02

Conversion electron

3.36530e-02

4.585e-02

Conversion electron

5.32130e-02

1.344e-02

Conversion electron

8.58580e-02

7.384e-02

Conversion electron

1.21173e-01

3.284e-02

Conversion electron

1.37441e-01

1.513e-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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