TABLE OF CONTENTS
Liquid
Scintillation Counting –
Recent Developments
Philip E. Stanley and Bruce A. Scoggins
Proceedings of the International
Symposium
on Liquid Scintillation Counting
Sydney,
PREFACE ..................................................................................................................... ix
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ............................................................................................. xi
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Towards an Understanding of the Scintillation Process
in
Organic Molecular Systems
J
B Birks ....................................................................................................................... 1
A Triple Sample Liquid Scintillation Counter
B
H Laney ................................................................................................................... 39
A New Liquid Scintillation Counter for Measurement of
Trace Amounts of H-3 and C-14
J
A Low Background Liquid Scintillation Counter for
C-14
P
E Hartley and V E Church ......................................................................................... 67
A Stochastic Model of the Liquid Scintillation
Counting Process
P
J Malcolm and P E Stanley ........................................................................................ 77
Lesser Pulse Height Analysis in Liquid Scintillation
Counting
C Ediss, A A Noujaim and L I Wiebe ............................................................................. 91
Measurement of I-125, I-131 and Other Gamma-Emitting
Nuclides by Liquid Scintillation Counting
E
D Bransome, Jr. and S E Sharpe, III ....................................................................... 103
Surfactants Behave as Scintillators in Liquid
Scintillation Counting
S
E Sharpe, III and E D Bransome, Jr. ....................................................................... 113
Spark Combustion of H-3 and
C-14 Labeled Samples Suitable
for Liquid Scintillation Counting
J E Noakes and
An Advanced Automatic
Sample Oxidizer - New Horizons in
Liquid Scintillation Sample Preparation
L J Everett,
Application of Liquid
Scintillation Spectrometers to Radiocarbon Dating
H A Polach ................................................................................................................ 153
Purity of Benzene
Synthesized for Liquid Scintillation C-14 Dating
I Fraser, H A Polach, R B
The Purity of
Commercial Liquid Scintillation Fluors and the
Effects of Impurities on Performance
K Painter and M Gezing ............................................................................................. 183
Recent Advances in
Sample Preparation
Y Kobayashi and D V Maudsley .................................................................................. 189
Suspension Counting of
C-14 in Soil, Soil Extracts and
Plant Materials by Liquid Scintillation
J K Adu and J M Oades .............................................................................................. 207
Teflon Vials for
Liquid Scintillation Counting of Carbon-14 Sample
G E Calf and H A Polach ............................................................................................ 223
Application of Glass
Ampoules in the Assay of Beta-Radioactivity
in Small Biological Samples
L F Sharry, C A Maxwell
and A M Downes .................................................................. 235
A Direct Technique for
Counting C-14 and H-3 in Tissues
S Apelgot, R Chemama and M Frilley ......................................................................... 249
Quantitative
Determination of Hormone Metabolites and
Glycogen
by Using a Liquid
Scintillation Quenching
Method
K R Laumas and S A Rahman .................................................................................... 267
A Comparison
of Phosphor Solutions for Counting Aqueous
Samples of Steroid Hormones
B A Scoggins, A Butkus and
J P Coghlan .................................................................... 281
Simultaneous Measurement of Fineness and Yellowness
of Wool Samples
A
M Downes, F E L ten Haaf and N Jackson ................................................................ 295
Data Processing for a Multi-User System with a Small
Online Computer
P
A Gresham and T P Carter ...................................................................................... 313
Plutonium Analysis by Liquid Scintillation Techniques
J J Fardy ................................................................................................................... 325
Radioimmunoassay Measurement of the Secretion and
Excretion
Rates of Aldosterone in the Guinea Pig
R
H Underwood and
Comments on Aspects of Absolute Activity Measurements
Obtained by
Liquid Scintillation
Counting
G
C Lowenthal ......................................................................................................... 349
Modern Techniques and Applications in Cerenkov
Counting
H H Ross and G T Rasmussen .................................................................................... 363
Bioluminescence Measurements: Fundamental Aspects,
Analytical Applications and Prospects
E Schram ................................................................................................................. 383
Bacterial Bioluminescence and its Application to
Analytical Procedures
J
Lee, C L Murphy, G J Fain, and T L Baucom ............................................................. 403
Use of Bioluminescence Procedures and Liquid
Scintillation Spectrometers for
Measuring Very Small
Amounts of Enzymes and Metabolites
P
E
Choice of Counting Vial for Liquid Scintillation: A
Review
K
Painter .................................................................................................................. 431
WORKSHOP SESSION - Chairman, J P Coghlan ......................................................... 453
CLOSING REMARKS - J B Birks .................................................................................. 477
SUBJECT INDEX ...................................................................................................... 483