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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.
Keisuke Kobayashi and Tsuyoshi Misawa
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 3 | March 1986 | Pages 407-420
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A17529
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It is shown that the semi-discrete ordinates equation can be used to create a computer program for a general order of PL approximations for solving the multigroup neutron transport equation in two-dimensional x-y geometry. Sample calculations for problems using up to a P7 approximation and up to four energy groups are given, and the results are compared with corresponding ones obtained by the discrete ordinates method. As the order of approximations increases, both results show good agreement, when the influence of the ray effect is not appreciable. The advantage of the present method is that the ray effect does not occur, which is the problem in the discrete ordinates method.