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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.”
Jinhui Liu, Fangyu Gu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 140 | Number 2 | November 2002 | Pages 164-168
Technical Paper | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3330
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This paper presents a new mass and energy estimating method for loose parts (LPs) combining the Karhunen-Loève (K-L) transform and neural network theories in the frequency domain. The detection of LPs was performed using simulated acoustic sensors mounted on the wall of a simulator of a reactor vessel. The impact events were simulated by simple pendulums. The data sampled in the time domain was changed to power spectral densities in the frequency domain using the fast Fourier transform. Then, the K-L transform was used to compress the original information. The final feature space's dimensions can be much less than the original ones. And, the original information remains as much as possible. The experiment showed that the impact characteristics of the LPs could be exactly depicted in the compressed feature space. The calculated mass values were approximately equal to the actual ones.