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Estimation of organ biodistribution and absorbed dose from external measurement with TLDs in PET studies

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  1. Division of Environmental Health, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Anagawa 4-9-1, Inage-ku, 263, Chiba, Japan

    M. Matsumoto

  2. Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center, Tohoku University Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, 980, Sendai, Japan

    T. Nakamura, H. Watabe, M. Itoh & J. Hatazawa

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This work was carried out while M. Matsumoto was based at the Cyclotron & Radioisotope Center.

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Matsumoto, M., Nakamura, T., Watabe, H. et al. Estimation of organ biodistribution and absorbed dose from external measurement with TLDs in PET studies. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 31 (Suppl 1), S151–S156 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02446664

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