Chemical digestion and radionuclidic assay of TiNi-encapsulated 32P intravascular brachytherapy sources

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 811-833

  Colle R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; DISSOLUTION; DOSIMETRY; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; IMPURITIES; PHOSPHORUS; RADIATION CHEMISTRY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; SPECTROMETRY; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

CHEMICAL DIGESTION; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT; RADIONUCLIDE ASSAY;

RADIOISOTOPES;

PHOSPHORUS 32;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; HEART DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RESTENOSIS; SPECTROMETRY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ALLOYS; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; NICKEL; PHOSPHORUS RADIOISOTOPES; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; TITANIUM;

EID: 0033136774     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(98)00167-5     Document Type: Article

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