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The use of whole-body counters to assess the potassium content in the human body is discussed. The paper reviews the basic problems of measuring potassium content of the intact organism, one of the measurement techniques which uses a NaI(Tl) crystal as a detector, and an analysis of the results that were obtained with this counter.
This investigation was supported in part by USPHS Research Grant RH 00283, Division of Radiological Health, USPHS General ResearchSupportGrant 1S01-FR-5368, and a grant from the American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation Grants-in-Aid for Research Project AMA-ERF No. 149.
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Remenchik, A.P., Hukkoo, R.K., Miller, C.E. (1966). Determination of Body Composition by Gamma Spectrometry. In: Pearson, L.R., Grove, E.L. (eds) Developments in Applied Spectroscopy. Developments in Applied Spectroscopy, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8694-0_32
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