Total body potassium calibrations for normal and obese subjects in two types of whole body counter
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 24 (1), 171-175
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/24/1/016
Abstract
The 42K technique has been used to calibrate two dissimilar whole-body counters (liquid scintillator and NaI) for total body content of potassium (TBK) measurements over a wide range of body weight (50.6-119.1 Kg). The standard error of an estimate of a TBK of 140 g is in the range of 3.0 to 3.4% for both counters and is similar to values reported for other counters (Burkinshaw (1967), Body et al. (1971), Hawkins et al. (1976)).This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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