Comparative biokinetics of trivalent radionuclides with similar ionic dimensions: Promethium-147, curium-242 and americium-241

Radiation Research

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 327-331

  Priest, N D ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM 241; CURIUM 242; PROMETHIUM 147; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMERICIUM; CURIUM; ION; PROMETHIUM;

ALPHA RADIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON; FEMALE; FEMUR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY; LIVER; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RAT; SPLEEN; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; KINETICS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

AMERICIUM; ANIMALS; CURIUM; FEMALE; IONS; KINETICS; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PROMETHIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 35348859614     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR0838.1     Document Type: Article

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