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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.
Farzad Rahnema, Piero Ravetto
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 128 | Number 2 | February 1998 | Pages 209-223
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A1952
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It is shown that a perturbation in the external boundary of a system can be converted into (treated as) a perturbation in the boundary condition of the neutron balance equation. As a result, one may then use existing boundary condition perturbation or variational methods to estimate the change in the parameters of interest. The equivalent perturbation in the boundary condition is derived both in transport theory and its diffusion approximation for eigenvalue as well as fixed-source problems. Generalized boundary conditions in both diffusion and transport theory are considered. The existence of a solution to the problem with the equivalent boundary conditions that are nonstandard is investigated through analytic examples. The analysis is limited to first-order perturbation theory.