Calculation of radiation exposures from patients to whom radioactive materials have been administered

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 501-516

  Cormack, John ^a   Shearer, Jane ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM 111; IODINE 131; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLEARANCE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOISOTOPE DIAGNOSIS; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY;

BIOPHYSICS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031881185     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/3/003     Document Type: Article

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