MIRD pamphlet no. 16: Techniques for quantitative radiopharmaceutical biodistribution data acquisition and analysis for use in human radiation dose estimates

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Siegel, Jeffry A ^a   Thomas, Stephen R ^a   Stubbs, James B ^a   Stabin, Michael G ^a   Hays, Marguerite T ^a   Koral, Kenneth F ^a   Robertson, James S ^a   Howell, Roger W ^a   Wessels, Barry W ^a   Fisher, Darrell R ^a   Weber, David A ^a   Brill, A Bertrand ^a  

^a NONE

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ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 16744365716     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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