Nuclide reference

Pt-197m — Platinum-197m

The half-life of Pt-197m is 1.5902 h. Main decay mode: isomeric transition to Pt-197 (96.7%).

Identification

Element
Platinum (Pt)
Atomic number Z
78
Mass number A
197
State
Radioactive

Key quantities

Half-life
1.5902 h
Specific activity
3.701e+17 Bq/g
Gamma constant Γ
—
A1 / A2 for transport (SSR-6, НП-053-16)
10 TBq / 0.6 TBq
D-value (НП-067-24)
0.9 TBq

Decay modes

  • isomeric transition → Pt-197 — 96.7 %
  • β⁻ decay → Au-197m — 3.3 %

Main gamma lines

Energy, keVYield, %
66.831 · X-ray line23.59
11.1249 · X-ray line20.7
346.511.39
279.01 (Au-197m)2.343
53.11.108
130.2 (Au-197m)0.1031
201.6 (Au-197m)0.03749
77.351 (Au-197m)0.01009

Includes daughter nuclides in equilibrium: Au-197m (yield per decay of Pt-197m); the emitting nuclide is in brackets. Equilibrium is reached in about 54 s.

Alpha and beta particles

RadiationEnergy, keVYield, %
β⁻, E max709.293.3

For β⁻ the endpoint (maximum) energy of the spectrum is given. ENDF/B-VIII.0.

Related calculators

Reference data vs computed valuesHalf-life, gamma lines and D-value are reference data (ENDF/B-VIII.0, НП-067-24).Gamma constant Γ is H*(10) at 1 m computed from ICRP-107 spectra (NIST µ_en/ρ, ICRP-74 Table A.21) including short-lived progeny in equilibrium (e.g. Cs-137/Ba-137m, Ra-226 series); specific activity uses molar mass M ≈ mass number A.K-series X-ray energies are from NIST SRD 128 (Deslattes et al., 2003): in ENDF/B-VIII.0 they are given to 1 % and shifted by up to 0.7 keV for heavy elements. L-series lines and all yields are ENDF/B-VIII.0.

Platinum-197m (Pt-197m) — reference data

What is in the card

This card gathers the key data of radionuclide Pt-197m in one place: half-life, decay modes, main gamma lines, alpha and beta particle energies, gamma constant, specific activity and the D-value for source categorization. Decay and emission data are from ENDF/B-VIII.0; the D-value follows NP-067-24; the gamma constant is the ambient dose equivalent H*(10) at 1 m, computed from ICRP-107 spectra.

How to use the data

Half-life and specific activity let you recalculate the activity of a Pt-197m source to the delivery or disposal date — use the decay calculator. Gamma lines with yields identify the nuclide from a spectrum and pick the line for gamma spectrometry; the gamma constant Γ gives the dose rate at a distance, while the D-value and A1/A2 set the source category and the package type for transport.