A new experimental determination of the dose calibrator setting for 188Re

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1508-1516

  Zimmerman, Brian E ^a   Cessna, Jeffrey T ^b   Unterweger, Michael P ^b   Li, Alex N ^b   Whiting, James S ^b   Knapp Jr , F F ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

188Re; Dose calibrators

Indexed keywords

RHENIUM 188;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRY; GRAVIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTISCANNING;

CALIBRATION; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RHENIUM; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

EID: 0032845360     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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