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Simultaneous determination of short-to-medium lived nuclides in Ghanaian food items using INAA and Compton suppression counting

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An instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) method was developed for the simultaneous determination of 19 elements in 10 individual food items from Ghana. The samples were irradiated for 1 minutes in a neutron flux of 2.5.

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  1. SLOWPOKE-2 Facility, Trace Analysis Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University; Ghana Atomic Energy Commission; Physics Department, University of Cape Coast, Halifax, B3H 4J3, Canada; P.O. Box LG 80, Legon-Accra, Ghana; Cape Coast, Ghana

    B. J. B. Nyarko

  2. Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, P.O. Box LG 80, Legon-Accra, Ghana

    E. H. K. Akaho

  3. Physics Department, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

    J. J. Fletcher

  4. SLOWPOKE-2 Facility, Trace Analysis Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, B3H 4J3, Canada

    B. Zwicker

  5. SLOWPOKE-2 Facility, Trace Analysis Research Centre, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, B3H 4J3, Canada

    A. Chatt

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Nyarko, B., Akaho, E., Fletcher, J. et al. Simultaneous determination of short-to-medium lived nuclides in Ghanaian food items using INAA and Compton suppression counting. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 270, 243–248 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-006-0334-z

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