Iron-59 Absorption Measurements by Whole-body Counting and Faecal Recovery Techniques A Study of Experimental Errors

Abstract

5 1. I* YTRODUCTION No methods to measure the intestinal absorption of gamma-emitting radioisotopes are as simple as those employing a whole-body counter.A number of reports on such methods have been published (e.g. Price,

Iron Absorption and Excretion in Aregenerative Anaemia

“…This error was not more pronounced for the Stockholm counter than for the more heavily shielded Brookhaven counter. A detailed analysis of the magnitude of these errors in the Stockholm counter, including regressions of body counter values on those obtained with the fecal recovery method or the red blood cell uptake method has been published separately (13).…”