Radionuclide bottleneck: Causes and lessons;Radionuklidengpass - Ursachen und lehren

NuklearMedizin

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 55-57

  Bockisch, Andreas ^a,d   Grünwald, Frank ^a,b,d   Kotzerke, Jörg ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d Universitäten Duisberg Essen ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; IODINE 123; MOLYBDENUM 99; RADIOISOTOPE; TECHNETIUM 99M; THALLIUM 201;

DRUG MANUFACTURE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POLICY; RADIOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 66449095630     PISSN: 00295566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1621101     Document Type: Editorial

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