Determination of thorium in organs from Thorotrast patients by inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence

Radiation Research

Volumn 152, Issue 6 SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Muramatsu, Yasuyuki ^a   Ishikawa, Yuichi ^b   Yoshida, Satoshi ^a   Mori, Takesaburo ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THORIUM; THORIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; X RAY FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0032715060     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3580123     Document Type: Article

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