Liquid Scintillation Counting

Liquid Scintillation Counting: Recent Developments presents the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Liquid Scintillation Counting, held in Sydney, Australia, on August 20-22, 1973. It summarizes the current status of recent developments in Iiquid scintillation spectrometry. It looks at the important role of liquid scintillation spectrometry in universities, laboratories and institutes involved in agriculture, biomedical science, geophysics, and nuclear physics. Organized into 32 chapters, this volume begins with an introduction to the scintillation process in organic molecular systems and liquid scintillation counting. It then discusses the background of a coincidence-type liquid scintillation counter, which is divided into three components. The reader is also introduced to the basic concepts involved in mathematical modeling. This volume includes papers dealing with solubilizers, spark ignition system, radiocarbon dating, benzene synthesis, liquid scintillation chemicals, luminous bacteria, and stochastic multidimensional model for liquid scintillation spectrometer. This book is a valuable source of information for scientists, agriculturists, geophysicists, and nuclear physicists.

Preface List of Contributors Towards an Understanding of the Scintillation Process in Organic Molecular Systems A Triple Sample Liquid Scintillation Counter A New Liquid Scintillation Counter for Measurement of Trace Amounts of 3H and 14C A Low Background Liquid Scintillation for 14C A Stochastic Model of the Liquid Scintillation Counting Process Lesser Pulse Height Analysis in Liquid Scintillation Counting Measurement of 125|, 131| and Other γ-Emitting Nuclides by Liquid Scintillation Counting Surfactants Behave as Scintillators in Liquid Scintillation Counting Spark Combustion of 3H and 14C Labeled Samples Suitable for Liquid Scintillation Counting An Advanced Automatic Sample Oxidizer — New Horizons in Liquid Scintillation Sample Preparation Application of Liquid Scintillation Spectrometers to Radiocarbon Dating Purity of Benzene Synthesized for Liquid Scintillation 14C-Dating The Purity of Commercial Liquid Scintillation Flours and the Effects of Impurities on Performance Recent Advances in Sample Preparation Suspension Counting of 14C in Soil, Soil Extracts and Plant Materials by Liquid Scintillation Teflon Vials for Liquid Scintillation Counting of Carbon-14 Sample Application of Glass Ampoules in the Assay of β-Radioactivity in Small Biological Samples A Direct Technique for Counting 14C and 3H in Tissues Quantitative Determination of Hormone Metabolites and Glycogen by Using a Liquid Scintillation Quenching Method A Comparison of Phosphor Solutions for Counting Aqueous Samples of Steroid Hormones Simultaneous Measurement of Fineness and Yellowness of Wool Samples Data Processing for a Multi-User System with a Small Online Computer Plutonium Analysis by Liquid Scintillation Techniques Radioimmunoassay Measurement of the Secretion and Excretion Rates of Aldosterone in the Guinea Pig Comments on Aspects of Absolute Activity Measurements Obtained by Liquid Scintillation Counting Modern Techniques and Applications in Cerenkov Counting