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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Reimagining nuclear materials for the future of medicine
Nuclear medicine has come a long way since Henri Becquerel first observed the penetrating energy of radioactive materials in 1896. Today, technetium-99m alone is used in more than 40 million diagnostic procedures every year—from cardiovascular imaging and bone scans to cancer detection—making it the undisputed workhorse of nuclear medicine. That single statistic tells you something important: An enormous portion of modern diagnostic medicine rests on a surprisingly narrow foundation, one built around a small number of aging research reactors that were never originally designed for continuous isotope production.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPSD
Tuesday, June 17, 2025|1:00–2:45PM CDT|State
Session Chair:
Irina I. Popova
Alternate Chair:
Tucker C. McClanahan
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How Low Must You Go? De Minimis May Not Be the Threshold You Want, But It's the One You Need
1:00–1:20PM CDT
Amir A. Bahadori (Kansas State), Lawrence Heilbronn (University of Tennessee-Knoxville), Paul Locke (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Lawrence T. Dauer (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
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The Stress Effect: How Radiophobia Skews Low-Dose Radiation Epidemiology
1:20–1:40PM CDT
Robert B. Hayes (NCSU)
Evaluation of Tissue Equivalency of Skin Imitation Layer for Localized Skin Dose Assessment
1:40–2:00PM CDT
Han Cheol Yang (Hanyang Univ.), Seung Beom Goh (Hanyang Univ.), Yong Kyun Kim (Hanyang Univ.)
Radiation Transport Modeling of Porous Structures at High Temperatures
2:00–2:20PM CDT
Nicholas Crenshaw (Univ. Texas, Austin), Austin Lo (GenAlpha Nuclear Technologies LLC), William S. Charlton (Univ. Texas, Austin)
