Analog Computer Methods in Studies of the Kinetic Behavior of Labeled Substances

Abstract

In several of the preceding papers given at this symposium, the use of radioactive tracers to determine transfer rates has been discussed. In very simple systems the mathematical aspects of the relationship between the observable behavior of the tracer and the kinetics of the system are sufficiently simple to permit the required calculations to be achieved on paper (1). With more complicated systems, however, the mathematics becomes too unwieldy for practical applications, and when this is the case, we turn to machines for assistance.

Research performed under the auspices of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission