Applications of nuclear techniques for in vivo body composition studies at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6230470· OSTI ID:6230470

Cohn, S H; Ellis, K J; Vartsky, D; Vaswani, A N; Wielopolski, L

A series of technical developments and their clinical applications in various nuclear technologies at Brookhaven National Laboratory is described. These include the development of a portable neutron activation facility for measuring cadmium in vivo in kidney and liver, a technique for the measurement of body iron utilizing nuclear resonant scattering of gamma rays, a non-invasive measure of the skeletal levels of lead by an x-ray fluorescence technique, and the development of a pulsed Van de Graaff generator as a source of pulsed neutrons for the measurement of lung silicon. (ACR)

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6230470
• Report Number(s): BNL-29959; CONF-8106151-1; ON: DE81029922; TRN: 81-016200
• Resource Relation: Conference: IAEA conference on nuclear based techniques for in vivo study of human body composition, Upton, NY, USA, 22 Jun 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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