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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.
Donald F. Shook, Donald Bogart, Donald L. Alger-and Robert A. Muller
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 26 | Number 4 | December 1966 | Pages 453-461
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE66-A18416
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Thermal-neutron flux perturbation factors have been measured for dysprosium - aluminum alloy foils in water and uranyl fluoride-water solutions. The foils are representative of a type widely used for thermal-neutron flux surveys. The measurements provide additional data for comparison with analytical calculations of foil perturbation factors in water. The uranyl fluoride-water solutions used comprise absorptive diffusion media different from water or graphite that have been studied exclusively in the past. The edges of the thicker dysprosium-aluminum foils used are a significant part of the total foil surface so that the data provide a test for several proposed edge corrections to perturbation factor calculations. The experimental perturbation factors are in good agreement with the predictions of published calculational methods except for the dimensionless generalization of Dalton and Osborn.