A new method of body habitus correction for total body potassium measurements

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4253-4265

  O'Hehir, S ^a,b   Green, S ^a,b   Beddoe, A H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC MODEL; BODY HABITUS CORRECTION; MONTE CARLO N-PARTICLE (MCNP); SIMULATION CODE;

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

POTASSIUM;

POTASSIUM 40; SODIUM IODIDE; THALLIUM;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RADIATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; TOTAL BODY POTASSIUM;

BODY BURDEN; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POTASSIUM RADIOISOTOPES; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 33747600915     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/17/009     Document Type: Article

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