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First astatine-labeled compound shipped in the U.S.
The Department of Energy’s National Isotope Development Center (NIDC) on March 31 announced the successful long-distance shipment in the United States of a biologically active compound labeled with the medical radioisotope astatine-211 (At-211). Because previous shipments have included only the “bare” isotope, the NIDC has described the development as “unleashing medical innovation.”
D. E. Dougherty, C. N. Shen
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 13 | Number 2 | June 1962 | Pages 141-148
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26142
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Using the semidirect variational method, the time dependent coefficients of a modal expansion of the neutron fluxes are given by the Euler-Lagrange equations obtained from a variational principle for the multigroup kinetic equations. In order to avoid the difficult task of determining orthogonal eigenfunctions for a modal expansion in a complex geometry, an approximate solution of the kinetic equations by the method of the “Green's Function” results in a set of readily calculated space modes. These modes can also be adapted to perturbations in the diffusion parameters about which one has some a priori information.