TABLE OF CONTENTS
Organic
Scintillators and
Liquid Scintillation Counting
Donald L. Horrocks and Chin-Tzu Peng, Editors
Proceedings of the International
Conference on
Organic Scintillators and Liquid Scintillation Counting
University of
PREFACE .................................................................................................................... xv
SPECIAL
PAPERS
Liquid Scintillator
Solvents
J B Birks ....................................................................................................................... 3
On an Empirical
Correlation between Nuclear Geometry and
Certain Spectroscopic Parameters of Aromatic
Compounds
Isadore B
Berlman ...................................................................................................... 25
Vacuum Ultraviolet
Excited Luminescence of Organic Systems
A Weinreb .................................................................................................................. 45
Techniques for the
Study of Excimers
Donald L
Horrocks ...................................................................................................... 75
Picosecond
Observations of Molecular Processes Using Laser Techniques
P M Rentzepis
and M R Topp ........................................................................................ 91
Oxygen Quenching of
Electronically Excited Scintillators in Solution
Brian Stevens ........................................................................................................... 117
Application of
Scintillation Counters to the Assay of Bioluminescence
Eric Schram,
René Cortenbosch, Eric Gerlo
and Henri Roosens ................................... 125
Radioassay of Infants,
Adults, Large and Small Animals
by Liquid Scintillation Counting
E R Graham ............................................................................................................. 137
Comparative Studies on Sample Preparation Methods,
Solutes, and Solvents for Liquid Scintillation Counting
D
A Kalbhen and A Rezvani ....................................................................................... 149
ORGANIC SCINTILLATORS
THEORETICAL
Scintillation Decay and Absolute Efficiencies in
Organic Liquid Scintillators
C Fuchs,
F Heisel, R Voltz and A Coche ....................................................................... 171
Theoretical Calculations of Singlet-Singlet and
Singlet-Triplet
Radiative Lifetimes in Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Richard
M Hedges and Owen C Hofer ......................................................................... 187
From Ozone to the Peptide Linkage
S P
McGlynn, H J Maria, D Larson and C J Seliskar ...................................................... 201
Saturated Hydrocarbons as Donors in Electronic Energy
Transfer Processes
Fumio
Hirayama and
Oxygen Quenching of Triplet States of Organic Phosphors
in Dilute Solutions
Andrzej
Adamczyk and Francis
Wilkinson ................................................................... 223
The Quantum Efficiency of Benzene as a Function of
Temperature
and Excitation Wavelength
Michael
D Lumb and L C Pereira ................................................................................ 239
PART B. PLASTICS
Effects of Pressure on the Energies of Low-Energy
Singlet and
Triplet States of Phenanthrene in Polymethylmetacrylate
Malcolm
Nicol, William D Ellenson and Robert
Geffner ................................................. 251
Dose Rate Saturation in Plastic Scintillators
L
A Harrah and R C Powell ......................................................................................... 265
Light Transmission of Organic Scintillators
R
Nicoll and M J C Ewer ............................................................................................. 279
ENERGY TRANSFER AND
EXCITED STATE REACTIONS
Energy Transfer Studies on Bridged Molecules
Containing p- Terphenyl
J S Brinen, G
Population of Transfer States in Liquid Scintillators
via a Temperature Study
Milton
Furst, Eugene Levin and Hartmut
Kallmann .................................................... 305
The Photo-Oxidation of 2,5-Diphenyloxazole (PPO)
Margaret
E Ackerman, Guido H Daub, F
Excited State Formation in the Irradiation of 1,3-Cyclohexadiene
Thomas
L. Penner and George S Hammond ............................................................... 327
The Effect of Solvent Excimer Formation on the Process
of Energy Transfer in Solution
S Georghiou and I H Munro ...................................................................................... 339
Energy Transfer from Naphthalene to Other Organic
Molecules in Liquid State under Ultraviolet Excitation
Mohyi-Eldin
M Abu-Zeid ............................................................................................ 351
QUENCHING
The Effect of Oxygen on the Scintillation from
Cyclohexane
and Benzene Solutions of p-Terphenyl
Shin
Sato and Shin Satoh ......................................................................................... 371
Oxygen and Nitric Oxide Quenching of the Luminescence
of Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Peter
F Jones and
Quantitative Measurement of Oxygen Quenching Effect
Hiroaki
Ishikawa and Makoto
Takiue .......................................................................... 387
Through Darkest Quench with Analyser and Camera
Peter
D Klein and William J
Eisler ............................................................................... 395
Mass Measurements in a Liquid Scintillation
Spectrometer:
Quantitation of Sulfhydryl Moieties by Color Quenching
Fred
Snyder and Anita Moehl .................................................................................... 419
A Stereochemical Approach to Self Quenching Studies
in
Some Bridged p-Quaterphenyl
Systems
Thomas
W Whaley, Guido H Daub, and F
Solute Optimization
R
L Litle and M P Neary ............................................................................................. 431
LIFETIMES AND
CHEMISTRY
Lifetime, Fluorescence Efficiency, and Scintillation Studies
on some trans-l ,2-Diarylethylenes
R
B Lehmann, G H Daub, F N Hayes, and J Yguerabide ............................................... 441
The Scintillation and Fluorescence Properties of
2-(4-Biphenylyl)-4, 5,9,
lO-Tetrahydropyrene and 2,2'-Bi(4,5,9,lO-Tetrahydropyrene)
Richard
L Taber and Henry C Fleming,
III .................................................................. 459
Scintillation Decay Times and Relative Sensitivities with
Ultraviolet Laser Excitation
R
New Techniques for Measuring Light Output and Decay
Times for Scintillators
T G Miller and A H Werkheiser ................................................................................... 479
EXCITONS
Remarks on Photoconductivity in Organic Crystals
Martin
Pope, Sidney J Fox, and Nicholas
E Geacintov .................................................. 489
The Magnetic Field Dependence of the Triplet-Triplet
Fusion
Rate Constant for Anthracene in Solution
P
Avakian, R P Groff, R E Kellogg, R E Merrifield and A. Suna ...................................... 499
Excitons on Linear Chains
R
M Hochstrasser and J D
Whiteman ......................................................................... 511
EXCIMERS, DELAYED
FLUORESCENCE, PHOSPHORESCENCE, AND EXCITED STATES
Electronic Excited States and Molecular Luminescence of
Some Photobiologic Molecules
Pill-Soon
Song, Thomas A Moore, William H Gordon, IIl,
Ming Sun and Ching-Nan Ou ..................................................................................... 521
Excimers as Localized and Delocalized States in
Organic Solids
Walter
Klöpffer ......................................................................................................... 545
Delayed Fluorescence and Double-Photon Absorption in
Solutions
of Some Aromatic Hydrocarbons
James
F Verdieck and Albert W
H Mau ....................................................................... 555
Multiple Resonance Techniques and the Spectroscopy of
the Triplet State
D
Phosphorescence due to Crystalline Defects
Tohru
Azumi ............................................................................................................ 577
LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING
BIOLOGICAL
Study of the Use of Bio-Solve Solubilizer with Biologically
Significant Samples
D
McClendon, M P Neary, M Galassi and W
Stephens................................................... 587
Thiopental Levels in Canine Plasma and Urine during
the First
Half-Hour Post-Injection Period as
Determined by Liquid Scintillation
Counting and Gas Chromatography
LeRoy
I Braddock and Henry L
Price .......................................................................... 599
The Use of the Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer for
Measuring NADH and
FMN by the Photobacterium Luciferase
and ATP by the FireflyLuciferase
P
E
Tritium Oxide Movement in Body Water of Healthy and Paralytic
Men
Wesley G McTaggart and David Cardus ....................................................................... 621
Liquid Scintillation Counting of Biological
Materials: Solubilized Whole Blood
Henry
J Laurencot and James L
Hempstead ............................................................... 635
The Use of Liquid Scintillation Counting Methods for
Study of
Protein Synthesis by Treponema pallidum
R
J Pillarisetty, D G T Wells, L S Naritomi, G
The Role of Liquid Scintillation Counting in the
Investigation of
M99 (Reckitt) - A Revolutionary Veterinary Drug
Horace
E Dobbs ....................................................................................................... 669
Local Absorption of Low Energy Betas by Solid
Supports:
A Problem in Heterogeneous Counting
Edwin
D Bransome, Jr. and Marvin F
Grower .............................................................. 683
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
Absolute Counting of Low Energy Beta Emitters Using
Liquid Scintillatio Counting Techniques
K
F Flynn, L
Radioactive Gas Assay with Solid Plastic Scintillators
Donald
Bogen and George Welford ............................................................................. 697
Precision of Some Quench Correction Methods in Liquid
Scintillation Counting
A
Noujaim, C Ediss and L Wiebe ................................................................................ 705
Exchange Reactions for the Determination of Low
Levels
of Tritium in Aqueous Samples
G E
Calf ................................................................................................................... 719
A New Gelifying Agent in Liquid Scintillation Counting
A
Benakis ................................................................................................................. 735
New Method of Micro-Liquid Scintillation Counting in
Plastic
Minibags for H-3, C-14, and P-32 Samples: Part I
Gopi
Nath Gupta ...................................................................................................... 747
New Procedure of Micro"Solid Scintillation
Counting on Fluor-Coated
Glass-Fiber Support in Plastic Minibags for H-3,
C-14, S-35,
and P-32 Samples: Part II
Gopi Nath
Gupta ....................................................................................................... 753
CERENKOV COUNTING
Performance Parameters of Selected Waveshifting
Compounds
for Cerenkov Counting
H
H Ross ................................................................................................................. 757
Application of Cerenkov Counting to Ion Transport
Studies in Plants
André
Läuchli ........................................................................................................... 771
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Investigation of a Commercial Liquid Scintillation Counter-Computer
(Packard Tri-Carb Model
3380-544)
R
J Herberg .............................................................................................................. 783
A Versatile Computer Oriented Liquid Scintillation
Counting System
Using the Double Ratio Technique
D S Glass ................................................................................................................. 803
Chemical vs. Color Quenching in Automatic External
Standard Calibration:
Application of Empirical Observations in
a Computer Program
James
F Lang ........................................................................................................... 823
An ALGOL Computer Program for the Computation of
Quench
Correction by Remote Terminal Using Punched Paper Tape
A
OXIDATION TECHNIQUES
Preparing Samples for Liquid Scintillation Counting
with
the Packard Sample Oxidizer
David W Sher, Niilo Kaartinen, Leroy T Everett and Victor Justes, Jr. ......................... 849
An Analytical Study of the Peterson Combustion Apparatus
T
R Tyler, A R Reich, and C Rosenblum ...................................................................... 869
ALPHA COUNTING
Discrimination between Different Alpha- and
Beta-Emitters
in Liquid Scintillation Counting Systems
H
Ihle, M Karayannis and A
Murrenhoff ..................................................................... 879
Liquid Scintillation Counting of Alpha Emitting Isotopes
Mary
Lou Curtis ........................................................................................................ 899
Absolute High Accuracy Counting of Alpha Particles in
the Presence of Beta Radiation
R
Vaninbroukx .......................................................................................................... 913
Combination of Liquid Scintillation Counting and
Solvent Extraction
T
K Kim and M B MacInnis ......................................................................................... 925
Liquid Scintillation Counting Techniques for the
Higher Actinides
W
J McDowell ........................................................................................................... 937
Determination of Pu-239 and Am-241 in Animal Tissues
by
Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry
A
Lindenbaum and M A Smyth .................................................................................. 951
APPLICATIONS
Low-Level Liquid Scintillation Counting and
Evaluation of
Counting Solutions of C-14 and H-3
Stephen
M Kim ......................................................................................................... 965
Relation between the Counting Efficiency of
Beta-Emitters
and the Quencher Concentration
Norbert
Kaczmarczyk ................................................................................................ 977
Electronic Rejection of Optical Crosstalk in a Twin Phototube
Scintillation Counter
B
H Laney ................................................................................................................ 991
A Study of Liquid Scintillation Counting Processes
Using
the Spectrofluorescence Technique
F
Grum, L F Costa, R S Miller and E P Przybylowicz ................................................... 1005
A Study of the Radioassay of Some Beta-Emitting
Isotopes in Wool
A M Downes ........................................................................................................... 1031
Beta Emittor Identification by Quench Analysis
Mary
Ann Dugan and Rodney D
Ice ......................................................................... 1055
An Accurate, High Efficiency Radioassay Procedure for C-14 and Tritium
Compounds Separated by Silica Gel
Thin Layer Chromatography
Walter A Shaw, William R Harlan and Arlene M Bennett ........................................... 1063
SUBJECT INDEX .................................................................................................... 1067