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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.
Toshihiko Kawano
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 131 | Number 1 | January 1999 | Pages 107-115
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE99-A2021
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A parameter estimation method based on Bayes' theorem is applied to the parameters of the neutron optical potential for 209Bi. The potential parameters at a certain energy are determined according to an assumption that parameters vary gradually with the incident neutron energies, and it is demonstrated that the method can be used as an efficient tool for investigating the energy dependence of the optical potential parameters.The derived potential parameters are expressed by both a polynomial function and a Brown-Rho parameterization, and the energy dependencies are interpreted by a dispersion relation theory. Both expressions of the energy-dependent parameters give a good description of the experimental elastic scattering cross section and the total cross section.