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  • Nuclear Analytical Techniques in Medicine

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • R. Cesareo
    • English
    This book will acquaint the interested physician or physicist with the fundamental principles and the instrumentation relevant to analytical techniques based on atomic and nuclear physics, as well as present and future biomedical applications. Besides providing a theoretical description of the physical phenomena, a large part of the book is devoted to applications in the medical and biological field, particularly in haematology, forensic medicine and environmental science.Analysis of the elemental composition of human tissues and cells and in particular trace elements has attracted increasing interest over the last few years, due to the increase in knowledge on the role of some elements and the possible correlations between abnormal concentrations of one or more trace elements and pathological conditions. This has stimulated the development of analytical techniques which allow the detection of trace elements simultaneously and at very low concentrations. Particularly in methods involving nuclear principles or nuclear apparatus, many techniques have been largely and successfully developed in recent years and applied in the medical field. This volume reviews methods such as the possibility of carrying out rapid multi-element analysis of trace elements on biomedical samples, in vitro and in vivo, by XRF-analysis; the ability of the PIXE-microprobe to analyze in detail and to map trace elements in fragments of biomedical samples or inside the cells; the potentiality of in vivo nuclear activation analysis for diagnostic purposes. Finally, techniques are described such as radiation scattering (elastic and inelastic scattering) and attenuation measurements which will undoubtedly see great development in the immediate future.

  • Separation Methods

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 8
    • Z. Deyl
    • English

  • Deltaic and Shallow Marine Deposits

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 1
    • English

  • Isotachophoresis

    Theory, Instrumentation and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 6
    • F.M. Everaerts + 2 more
    • English

  • Instrumental Liquid Chromatography

    A Practical Manual on High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Methods
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • English

  • Zeolites

    Synthesis, Structure, Technology and Application
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24
    • B. Držaj + 2 more
    • English
    The synthesis of zeolites with desired structure and properties is of great importance for the preparation of highly active and selective catalysts for inorganic and organic reactions. The zeolite matrix offers unique possibilities for carrying out molecular shape-selective catalysis and this places the zeolite matrices among the most successful tools used in molecular engineering on a large scale.These proceedings cover the most recent developments in the fields of synthesis, structure determination and technological use of zeolites. The papers give detailed explanations of the processes involved in the mechanisms of zeolite synthesis. Special attention is focussed on complex ionic equilibria which occur in the starting hydrogel, to the ``templating effect'' and to the kinetics of zeolite formation. New powerful methods for structure determination of these materials, which usually consist of small crystals, are presented e.g. neutron diffraction and X-ray diffraction using synchrotron radiation. The distribution of tetrahedrally coordinated framework-constituen... elements and their interaction with adsorbates is revealed by using high magnetic field nuclear magnetic resonance with sample spinning at ``magic'' angle (MAS NMR).Quite a number of articles are devoted to the dependence of the physico-chemical properties of zeolites on the parameters set during their synthesis. Descriptions are given of the possible technological use of synthetic zeolites in the fields of adsorption, catalysis, the production of laundry detergents, the removal of radioactive wastes, and the technological use of natural zeolites in the fields of animal feeding, municipal water treatment, paper and cement production, and energy storage. This book will be of interest to scientists working in the fields of catalysis, surface science, inorganic chemistry, materials science, petrochemistry, solid state physics, crystallography and geology.

  • Reflex Control of Posture and Movement

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 50
    • English

  • Aging of the Brain and Alzheimer's Disease

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 70
    • English

  • Bentonites

    Geology, mineralogy, properties and uses
    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 24
    • English

  • Ecohydrodynamics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 32
    • J.C.J. Nihoul
    • English

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