Authors: Mirela Angela Saizu
Publish Date: 2011/09/03
Volume: 291, Issue: 3, Pages: 643-648
Abstract
At the Whole Body Monitoring Laboratory from IFINHH Bucharest Romania there were performed in vivo gammaray spectrometry measurements on 108 Romanian males in order to evaluate the mineral natural potassium content in human body as total value and concentration The measurements were performed with a shadow shield whole body counter tilted chair geometry based on a shielded NaITl scintillation detector of 125 cm diameter × 10 cm height crystal size The results revealed a calculated value of the mean total body potassium TBK of 13503 ± 294 g and a value of 19 ± 0022 g of potassium/kg of body weight for the mean body potassium concentration for the measured males These values are similar with the values declared for the Reference Man in ICRP23 Correlations between total body potassium potassium concentration and age weight and Body Build Index were investigated and peculiar conclusions were resulted
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