Chapter 4 Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World Phantoms, Radioiodine Uptake Tests, and the IAEA's Standardization Projects
This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez Crespo, a Spanish physicist employed by the International Atomic Energy Agenc...
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