Whole Body Counters in Biomedical Research

Authors

  • S. C. Jain Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences, Delhi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14429/dsj.44.4146

Keywords:

Radiation fallout, Absorption tests, Detectors, Shielding, Detector subject geometry

Abstract

Whole body counter plays an important role in medical diagnosis and clinical research. It has been used for monitoring of radiation workers for the assessment of internal contamination or assessment of activity in persons exposed to radiation fallout. In a nuclear emergency like Chernobyl, neutron exposure to the radiation victims was assessed by measuring the induced activity of /sup 24/Na. Apart from its use in determining certain element composition in the body, it has got a number of clinical applications like absorption tests, and metabolic and kinetic studies. The work done at INMAS whole body counter facility is also discussed.

Author Biography

S. C. Jain, Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences, Delhi

Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences, Delhi.

Downloads

Published

2013-01-01

How to Cite

Jain, S. C. (2013). Whole Body Counters in Biomedical Research. Defence Science Journal, 44(1), 15–19. https://doi.org/10.14429/dsj.44.4146

Issue

Vol. 44 No. 1: Biomedical Science

Section

Special Issue Papers

License

 Where otherwise noted, the Articles on this site are licensed under Creative Commons License: CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India

 

Most read articles by the same author(s)

1 2 > >>