ISSN:
1588-2780
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
Notes:
Abstract The technique of neutron activation analysis (NAA) was first demonstrated in papers by Georg Hevesy and Hilde Levi in 1936 and 1938. Applications of NAA to biological tissues did not appear in the literature until approximately a decade later, when analysts obtained access to high flux nuclear fission reactors. NAA studies of trace element imbalances in specific diseases developed rapidly in the 1980s with the availability of affordable high resolution, high efficiency, solid-state gamma-ray detectors. A brief history of NAA as related to trace element analyses of human tissues is presented and recent NAA studies of relationships of elemental imbalances to the etiology or pathogenesis of selected diseases are reviewed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02041521
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