Turnover Compartmentalization: A Statistical Tracer Theory for Analysis of Whole-System Retention Data
Abstract
The application of tracer methods have, especially in medicine, opened a new class of physical problems, which have seemingly been given little consideration. Probably this is because the theoretical physicists today are so much occupied by quantum mechanics and theory of relativity that there is hardly any interest left over for what belongs to old fashioned statistical mechanics. Therefore, in the interpretation of tracer data, people have been forced to rely mainly on inductive methods, i.e., the construction of "models" that are not derived from basic principles but borrow their significance from how well they fit data. In an attempt to find a more deductive approach, I started some years ago a construction of what was intended to be a general physical tracer theory, a tracer dynamics (1). Although the emerging theory was general enough, and made possible a more precise formulation of some existing problems, it did not lead to anything of much practical result.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- ADA396080
Entities
People
- Per-erik E. Bergner
Organizations
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities