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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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.
H. Rief, E. M. Gelbard, R. W. Schaefer, K. S. Smith
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 2 | February 1986 | Pages 289-297
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A18178
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Monte Carlo perturbation analysis has progressed considerably during recent years. Generalized schemes for correlated tracking and higher order derivative operator sampling have been elaborated for commonly used estimators. For special problems, like voiding of strongly absorbing regions, new solutions have been developed. Their respective advantages, especially in view of variance considerations, have been analyzed for simple models. Also, perturbations of eigenvalues could be determined by these methods, provided the usual source iteration procedure is coupled with adjoint weighting or replaced by the Green's function (fission matrix) approach.