title: Systmatic method of formulating liquid phantoms with a given elemental composition and density.
abstract: A general method of formulating tissue equivalent liquid mixtures of a given chemical composition and density using the technique of linear programming is described. It is used to generate mixtures with equivalent atomic composition as ICRP Standard Man and mammalian muscle (NBS Handbook 85) using eight compounds to cover the range of densities from 1.0 to 1.13. Use of the method to handle other parameters of a mixture is also described.
mesh_terms: D001822:Body Burden; D001823:Body Composition; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D008961:Models, Structural; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation*