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Krishnan et al., 1990 - Google Patents

Improved clinical facility for in vivo nitrogen measurement

Krishnan et al., 1990

Document ID
13106823061939938741
Author
Krishnan S
McNeill K
Mernagh J
Bayley A
Harrison J
Publication year
Publication venue
Physics in Medicine & Biology

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The design and construction of a hospital clinical facility for in vivo prompt gamma neutron activation analysis for total body nitrogen (TBN) measurement is described. The use of 252 Cf neutron sources gives a better signal-to-background ratio compared with 238 Pu-Be …
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    • G01T1/161—Application in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting
    • G01T1/164—Scintigraphy
    • G01T1/1641—Static instruments for imaging the distribution of radioactivity in one or two dimensions using one or several scintillating elements; Radio-isotope cameras
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