Separation of samarium-153 from its irradiated taegets by different methods

The thesis entitled “Separation of Samarium-153 from its Irradiated Targets by Different Methods“comprises four chapters, introduction, review of literature, experimental, and results and discussion.Chapter (I), introduction includes a brief accounts on the applications of radioisotopes and 153Sm radioisotope, choice of radioisotope for medical applications, radioisotope production, factors affect the specific activity of the produced radioisotope, tChapter (II), review of literature, this chapter includes a brief account on the methods of production of samarium-153 by reactors and cyclotrons, methods of separation of samarium from other lanthanide elements. It also includes a previous literature of Chapter (III), experimental, this chapter includes reagents, chemicals, materials, description of instrumentations used. Also, it includes experim- ental procedures, the techniques used for production, solvent extraction, separation, and quality control oChapter (IV), results and discussion, represents the obtained results and their discussion.