TABLE OF CONTENTS
Liquid Scintillation Counting Volume 4
M.A. Crook and P. Johnson, Editors
Proceedings of a Symposium
Organized by the Radiochemical Methods Group
(Anaytical Division, The Chemical Society)
Bath, England
PREFACE ....................................................................................................................... ix
I. SCINTILLATION PROCESSES
Impurity Quenching of Organic Liquid Scintillators
J B Birks ........................................................................................................................ 3
Systematically Understanding the Liquid Scintillation Counting Process:
A Stochastic Computer Model
P J Malcolm and P E Stanley........................................................................................... 15
Practical Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry: Organizing a Methodology
P E Stanley and P J Malcolm .......................................................................................... 44
A Simple Mathematical Model of a Liquid Scintillation Counter
F E L ten Haaf and M L Vereijke .................................................................................... 63
Two-Parameter Pulse Height Analysis in Liquid Scintillation
B H Laney .................................................................................................................... 74
Design of a Micellar-Based Technique for Recycling Liquid Scintillation Glass Vials
N G L Harding and J Dixon ............................................................................................ 85
II. RECENT ADVANCES IN SAMPLE PREPARATION
Recent Advances in Sample Preparation for Liquid Scintillation Counting
B W Fox ..................................................................................................................... 103
Quench Corrections for Emulsion Systems
H S Wagstaff and A R Ware ........................................................................................ 115
Sample Preparation Techniques for Tritium Counting in Biological Systems
P Johnson, T J Rising and B R Twite ............................................................................ 125
A New Method of Sample Handling and its Application to Liquid Scintillation Analysis
B Bakay ..................................................................................................................... 133
Technique for Sequential Cerenkov and Liquid Scintillation Counting After Concentration of Emitters on Submilligram Amounts of Carrier
T H Bates ................................................................................................................... 142
III. THE USE OF THE SCINTILLATION COUNTER IN RADIOIMMUNOASSAY
The Use of the Scintillation Counter in Radioimmunoassay
P Tothill ..................................................................................................................... 155
The Determination of Tritium in the Presence of Iodine-125
G Ayrey, K L Evans, D Exley and B J Woodhams .......................................................... 165
Correct Liquid Scintillation Counting of Steroids and Glycosides in RIA Samples: A Comparison of Xylene-Based, Dioxane-Based and Colloidal Counting Systems
H Spolders ................................................................................................................. 176
IV. LOW LEVEL COUNTING
Considerations for Achieving Low Level Radioactivity Measurements with Liquid Scintillation Counters
J E Noakes ................................................................................................................. 189
Evaporation Losses of Organic Samples from Liquid Scintillation Counting Vials
R Burleigh and A Hewson ........................................................................................... 207
Desktop Calculator-Assisted Liquid Scintillation Spectrometry of H-3 and C-14 with Special Consideration of Low Level Activities and Spectrometer Instability
P Jordan and K May .................................................................................................... 214
V. ERRORS IN LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING
Accuracy and Merit in Liquid Scintillation Counting
L Currie ..................................................................................................................... 219
Assessment of the Significance of Low Count Rates
D E Case, D Barnfield and P R Reeves ......................................................................... 243
Errors in dpm Measurements in Liquid Scintillation Counting with External Standardisation
E G Cummins and C G Horne ...................................................................................... 252
Temperature Compensation in Liquid Scintillation Counters
F E L ten Haaf and J G H Kuipers ................................................................................ 258
SUBJECT INDEX ......................................................................................................... 267
INDEX TO CONTRIBUTORS ......................................................................................... 269