Development of an accelerator based determination of aluminum burden in peripheral bone by neutron activation analysis

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 49, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 717-719

  Pejovic Milic, A ^a   McNeill, F E ^a   Prestwich, W V ^a   Waker, A J ^b   Chettle, D R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN NUCLEAR LABORATORIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BONE; GAMMA RAYS; HEAT FLUX; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS;

THERMAL NEUTRON FLUX;

NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS;

ALUMINUM;

ALUMINUM FACTORY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIALYSIS ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; OSTEOMALACIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL OSTEODYSTROPHY;

ALUMINUM; BONE AND BONES; ENGLAND; HUMANS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING;

EID: 0032080034     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(97)00092-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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