PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Peter W. Blue
AU  - Paul H. Brown
AU  - Stephen M. Manier
AU  - Nasser Ghaed
TI  - Calculation of Minimal Detectable Activity for Scintillation Detection Systems
DP  - 1987 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 5--7
VI  - 15
IP  - 1
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/15/1/5.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/15/1/5.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.1987 Mar 01; 15
AB  - This paper analyzes the statistical approach to the determination of minimum detectable radioactivity for nuclear medicine counting data. Based upon measurements of the background level and detector counting efficiency this method allows calculation of the counting time necessary to detect a specified minimum amount of radioactivity. This method is important both in the application of bioassay measurements of radiation workers for measuring thyroid burden and in the measurement of radioactive wipe test samples.