Metrologic traceability of total thyroxine measurements in human serum: Efforts to establish a network of reference measurement laboratories

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 161-168

  Thienpont, Linda M ^a   Van Uytfanghe, Katleen ^a   Marriot, John ^b   Stokes, Peter ^b   Siekmann, Lothar ^c   Kessler, Anja ^c   Bunk, David ^d   Tai, Susan ^d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LGC   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FREEZE DRYING; FREEZING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; LABORATORY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING; SERUM; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INDICATOR DILUTION TECHNIQUES; LABORATORIES; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SERUM; THYROXINE;

EID: 11144346938     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.041772     Document Type: Article

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