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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.
Chris L. Castrianni, Marvin L. Adams
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 128 | Number 3 | March 1998 | Pages 278-296
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE98-A1956
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A strictly positive spatial discretization method for the linear transport equation is presented. This method, which is algebraically nonlinear, enforces particle conservation on subcells and approximates the spatial variation of the source in each subcell as an exponential. The method is described in slab geometry and analyzed in several limits of practical significance; numerical results are presented. An x-y-geometry version of the method is then presented, assuming a spatial grid of arbitrary polygons; numerical results are presented. A rapidly convergent method for accelerating the iterations on the scattering source is also presented and tested. The analyses and results demonstrate that the method is startlingly accurate, especially on shielding-type problems, even given coarse and/or distorted spatial meshes.