Proposal of a candidate international conventional reference measurement procedure for free thyroxine in serum

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 934-936

  Thienpont, Linda M ^a   Beastall, Graham ^b   Christofides, Nicholas D ^c   Faix, James D ^d   Ieiri, Tamio ^e   Jarrige, Véronique ^f   Miller, W Greg ^g   Miller, Richard ^h   Nelson, Jerald C ⁱ   Ronin, Cathérine ^j   Ross, H Alec ^k   Rottmann, Michael ^l   Thijssen, Jos H ^m   Toussaint, Brigitte ⁿ  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c Ortho Clinical Diagnostics   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f BECKMAN COULTER INC   (United States)

^g VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j CNRS   (France)

^k RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^l ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

ⁿ JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Equilibrium dialysis; Free thyroxine; International conventional reference measurement procedure; Isotope dilution liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry; Metrological traceability; Serum

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA BASE; DIALYSATE; EQUILIBRIUM DIALYSIS; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DIALYSIS; HUMANS; ISOTOPES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THYROXINE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 34447256304     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2007.155     Document Type: Article

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