Detection of anthropogenic gadolinium in treated wastewater in South East Queensland, Australia

Water Research

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3534-3540

  Lawrence, Michael G ^a   Ort, Christoph ^a   Keller, Jurg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

ICP MS; Micropollutants; Paramagnetic contrast agents

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMAGNETISM; POTABLE WATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTHROPOGENICS; AUSTRALIA; CONTRAST AGENT; GADOLINIA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROPOLLUTANTS; PARAMAGNETIC CONTRAST AGENT; PARAMAGNETIC CONTRASTS; QUEENSLAND; TREATED WASTEWATER;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY;

DRINKING WATER; GADOLINIUM;

DETECTION METHOD; GADOLINIUM; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 67649965884     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.04.033     Document Type: Article

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