TABLE OF CONTENTS
Liquid Scintillation Counting Volume 3
M.A. Crook and P. Johnson, Editors
Proceedings of a Symposium
Organized by the Society for Analytical Chemistry
Brighton, England
PREFACE ....................................................................................................................... ix
I. MODERN CONCEPTS IN LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING
Applied Liquid Scintillation Counting
D L Horrocks .................................................................................................................. 3
Redent Developments in Photomultipliers for Liquid Scintillation Counting
D E Persyk and T T Lewis ............................................................................................. 21
Liquid Scintillation Counting of Radionuclides used in Radioimmunoassay
D L Horrocks ................................................................................................................ 28
An Intercomparison of Commonly Used Liquid Scintillation Counting Vials
K Painter and M J Gezing .............................................................................................. 34
Short Communication - Colour Quenching in Liquid Scintillation Coincidence Counters
F E L ten Haaf .............................................................................................................. 41
II. QUENCH CORRECTION TECHNIQUES
Standardisation in Liquid Scintillation Counting
E B Mueller .................................................................................................................. 47
Fundamental Approaches for the Assessment of Chemical and Colour Quenching in Backgrounds and Samples
P E Stanley................................................................................................................... 65
Colour Quenching by Carotenoids
P M Bramley, B H Davies and A F Rees .......................................................................... 76
New Method for Obtaining the Quench Correction Curve in Liquid
Scintillation Counting
M A Reunanen and E J Soini ......................................................................................... 86
A Flexible FORTRAN IV Program for Scintillation Counter Data Processing with
Optical Features for User's Specific Requirements
D E Bowyer and J D Pearson ......................................................................................... 94
III. SAMPLE PREPARATION: PART I
Homogeneous Counting
B E Gordon ................................................................................................................ 109
Solubilisation of Mammalian Tissue for Scintillation Counting
J G Dent and P Johnson
Automated Tube Furnace Combustion for Liquid Scintillation Sample Preparation
E Rapkin .................................................................................................................... 132
Semi-automatic 'In-Vial' Combustion System with the Micro-Mat System
L A Wegner and H Winkelmann .................................................................................. 150
Sample Preparation with an Automated Oxygen Flask Combustion Apparatus for
Liquid Scintillation Counting of H-3, C-14 and/or S-32 Labelled Material
P Rauschenbach and H Simon .................................................................................... 158
A Comparison of Combustion Techniques Used in the Preparation of C-14 Labelled Samples for Liquid Scinitllation Counting from Biological Materials
R G Cooper ................................................................................................................. 164
IV. SAMPLE PREPARATION: PART II
Heterogeneous Counting Systems
V Tarkkanen .............................................................................................................. 177
Optimisation in Colloid Scintillation Counting
B W Fox ..................................................................................................................... 202
The Reliability of Estimating Carbon-14 in Biological Samples
B Scales ..................................................................................................................... 211
Micellar Scintillators: A Rational Approach to the Design of Stable Assay Solvents for Liquid Scintillation Counting
M J Ewer and N G L Harding ........................................................................................ 220
Short Communication - Activity Determination of Phosphorus-32 Sources with High Solid Content
E Gunther .................................................................................................................. 234
V. SPECIAL TOPICS
Cerenkov Counting and Other Special Topics
R P Parker .................................................................................................................. 237
Analytical Bioluminescence Assays Using the Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer:
A Review
P E Stanley ................................................................................................................ 253
The Continuous Measurement of Carbon-14 Activity in Circulating Blood by Liquid Scintillation Counting
B F J Page .................................................................................................................. 273
The Liquid Scintillation Counting of Iron-55 Using 'Aquasol'
G A Sutton and B R Harvey ......................................................................................... 279
An In-Vial Oxidation Procedure for the Simutaneous Determination of Plutonium Alpha Activity and Plutonium-241 on Smear Samples
J D Eakins .................................................................................................................. 287
A Bomb Method for Rapid Combustion of Samples
R Burleigh .................................................................................................................. 295
Short Communication - A Micromethod for Urease
J de Bersaques ........................................................................................................... 303
SUBJECT INDEX ......................................................................................................... 307
INDEX TO CONTRIBUTORS ......................................................................................... 309