On 20 Jul 1994, Douglas Fitts wrote:
> An article in Brain Research uses some units I've never run into before,
> and I've exhausted my limited resources in my office and my colleagues'
> offices. The authors are from Leipzig, Munich, and Quebec if that's a
> clue.
>> Apparently referring to concentrations of tritiated amino acids and
> glucose or 14C tagged mannitol, etc., the authors use the units:
>> TBq mmol(-1) and GBq mmol(-1)
>> where (-1) is of course an exponent. What are these TBq and GBq?
> I'm guessing T is tera and G is giga. I've no clue as to the Bq.
YOUR T AND G ARE CORRECT. Bq=Bequerel
WHERE 1 Bequerel = 1 dps (disintegrations/second)
AND 7.7 x 10 (10)dps = 1 Curie
I NEVER USE BEQUERELS (AND I DON'T KNOW WHO DOES), I HAD TO LEARN THE
TERMINOLOGY TO PASS OUT LOCAL RADIATION TEST!
SORRY, I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THE hg, IT MAY BE A MERCURY PRESSURE THING!
MANDY
> Later, referring to a permeability surfacearea product (the paper is
> about transfer across the blood-brain barrier) they use the units:
>> ml/hg/min
>> I've often seen the PS product as ml/g/min, but what's 'hg'?
>> Thanks for any help or ideas.
>> Doug Fitts
> University of WAshington
