Cross sections of deuteron induced reactions on $^{nat}$Sm for   production of the therapeutic radionuclide $^{145}$Sm and $^{153}$Sm
  At present, targeted radiotherapy (TR) is acknowledged to have great potential in oncology. A large list of interesting radionuclides is identified, including several radioisotopes of lanthanides, amongst them $^{145}$Sm and $^{153}$Sm. In this work the possibility of their production at a cyclotron was investigated using a deuteron beam and a samarium target. The excitation functions of the $^{nat}$Sm(d,x)$^{145153}$Sm reactions were determined for deuteron energies up to 50 MeV using the stacked-foil technique and high-resolution $\gamma$-ray spectrometry. The measured cross sections and the contributing reactions were analyzed by comparison with results of the ALICE, EMPIRE and TALYS nuclear reaction codes. A short overview and comparison of possible production routes is given. 
F. T\'ark\'anyi, A. Hermanne, S. Tak\'acs, F. Ditr\'oi, J. Csikai,   A.V. Ignatyuk
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