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Information about Fluorine-18:

(no NIST x-ray data)(no NIST attenuation data)
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Flourine-18 is used as FDG PET.
    Mass-Energy Data:

    Atomic Mass:18.000938±0.000001amu
    Excess Mass (Δ):0.873431±0.000593MeV
    Binding Energy:137.369199±0.000593MeV
    β- Decay Energy:-4.433351±0.001613MeV
"The 1995 update to the atomic mass evaluation" by G.Audi and A.H.Wapstra, Nuclear Physics A595 vol. 4 p.409-480, December 25, 1995.
Radioactive Decay Data:

  • Spin: 1+
  • Half life: 109.77 min ( 6586.2 sec., λ = 0.000105242 s-1)
  • Mode of decay:
    E.C.
    to
    18
    8
    O
      (Q = 1.656 MeV)

  • Possible parent nuclides:
    E.C. from
    18
    10
    Ne
R.R.Kinsey, et al.,The NUDAT/PCNUDAT Program for Nuclear Data,paper submitted to the 9 th International Symposium of Capture-Gamma_raySpectroscopy and Related Topics, Budapest, Hungary, Octover 1996.Data extracted from NUDAT database (Jan. 14/1999)
Magnetic Dipole Moments and Electric Quadrupole Moments
Ex(kev)T1/2Spin    m(nm)    Q(b)    Ref. Std.MethodReference
93747 ps3+ +1.6(2) IMPACJPJa 50 2804 (81)
+1.77(12) RIV/DTh Rowe (76)
!.7(2) RIGVHFI 4 183 (78)
1121153 ns5+ +2.86(3) TDPADPL B24 457 (67)
0.077(5) st [19F 197]TDPADTh Morgen (69)
N. J. Stone, Table of Nuclear Magnetic Dipole and Electric Quadrupole Moments, to be published.  2000 Courtesy of T. Burrows at BNL/NNDC.