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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.
Jin-Yang Li, Long Gu, Hu-Shan Xu, You-Peng Zhang, Cun-Feng Yao, Da-Jun Fan, Guan Wang, Xin-Kang Su
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 5 | July 2021 | Pages 350-358
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1904598
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ITER is an experimental tokamak device that has many collaborators from different countries and aims to produce energy from nuclear fusion inside a reactor with magnetic confinement. Corresponding scientific data and structure visualization are important factors in connecting qualitative information from human intuition and quantitative content of physical-based datasets. Therefore, building an integrated platform with the interaction of scientific data visualization is inevitable for engineers and researchers in geographically distributed groups to effectively promote consistent design work, and it is also a key part in research and training processes for operators and students to better understand the ITER structure with analysis results. In this context, a digital ITER-type mock-up has been developed at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences based on an immersive virtual reality platform that is designed using client/server hybrid heterogeneous cloud architecture with many user-friendly and flexible features. Detailed ITER-type models have been developed and optimized in low-poly style to increase rendering speed, and scientific data in the scalar field have been represented by means of the view-dependent ray-casting method with topological texture images, which can fulfill real-time roaming and inspecting tasks for research purposes and provide an efficient and effective tool for fusion technology education at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.