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Chris Wagner: The role of Eden Radioisotopes in the future of nuclear medicine
Chris Wagner has more than 40 years of experience in nuclear medicine, beginning as a clinical practitioner before moving into leadership roles at companies like Mallinckrodt (now Curium) and Nordion. His knowledge of both the clinical and the manufacturing sides of nuclear medicine laid the groundwork for helping to found Eden Radioisotopes, a start-up venture that intends to make diagnostic and therapeutic raw material medical isotopes like molybdenum-99 and lutetium-177.
Isao Murata, Shigeo Yoshida, Noriyuki Saito, Akito Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 997-1001
Neutronics Experiments and Analysis (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963743
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Secondary gamma-ray skyshine has been measured at an intense 14 MeV neutron source facility with a Hp-Ge detector used to investigate this mechanism. Many discrete gamma-rays due to (n, γ) reactions were observed in the spectrum. It was confirmed that in the evaluation of the secondary gamma-ray skyshine, a precise spectrum calculation down to thermal neutron is indispensable. On the other hand, there exists only a continuum spectrum up to 8 MeV with no discrete peaks in the real skyshine spectrum from the upper air. It was found that the continuum spectrum is composed of mainly Compton scattered gamma-rays. In the distance dependency measurement, the real skyshine contribution showed slow attenuation compared with the whole skyshine contribution. This means that with increasing distance from the facility the real skyshine contribution is gradually dominant, namely, it becomes more important in the skyshine evaluation.