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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.
J. Eduard Hoogenboom
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 160 | Number 1 | September 2008 | Pages 1-22
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE160-01
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Zero-variance Monte Carlo schemes have been discussed in the literature at several places. Taking a fresh look, it turns out that some authors made essential errors in their derivation and conclusions. We will prove that for a given estimator there is only one zero-variance scheme possible with a unique biasing of the source function and the transition and collision kernels. A practical demonstration of a zero-variance scheme will be shown numerically for a two-group homogeneous slab system treated by the two-direction transport model, which provides an analytical solution for the particle flux and adjoint functions.