TABLE OF CONTENTS
Liquid
Scintillation Science and Technology
A.A. Noujaim, C. Ediss, L.I. Wiebe, Editors
Proceedings of the International
Conference on
Liquid Scintillation Science and Technology
Banff,
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS .............................................................................................. ix
PREFACE ................................................................................................................... xiii
CONFERENCE PAPERS
The Mechanisms of
the Liquid Scintillation Process
Donald L Horrocks ........................................................................................................ 1
Liquid Scintillation
Alpha Counting and Spectrometry and
Its Application to Bone and. Tissue Samples
W J McDowell and J F
Weiss ........................................................................................ 17
Measurement by
Liquid Scintillator of Labeled Compounds
(H-3 or C-14) Dropped onto Supports
Sonia Apelgot and Maurice Duquesne .......................................................................... 33
Heterogeneous
Counting on Filter Support Media
E Long. V Kohler and M J Kelly .................................................................................... 47
Liquid Scintillation
in Medical Diagnosis
Kent Painter ............................................................................................................... 69
Theory and
Application of Cerenkov Counting
H H Ross .................................................................................................................... 79
Methyl Salicylate as
a Medium for Radioassay of Chlorine-36 Using a
Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer
L L Wiebe and C Ediss ................................................................................................. 93
Some Factors
Influencing External Standardization
Philip E Stanley ........................................................................................................ 103
Study of the Sizes and Distributions of Colloidal Water
in
Water-Emulsifier-Toluene Systems
Donald
L Horrocks .................................................................................................... 117
External Standard Method of Quench Correction:
Advanced Techniques
B
H Laney ................................................................................................................ 135
Liquid Scintillation Counting of Novel Radionuclides
J
A B Gibson ............................................................................................................. 153
Cerenkov Counting and Liquid Scintillation Counting
for
the Determination of Fluorine-18
D
An Interface for Routine Spectral Display from
Several
Liquid Scintillation Counters
B
E Gordon, M Press,
Absolute Disintegration Rate Determination of
Beta-Emitting
Radionuclides by the Pulse Height
Shift-Extrapolation Method
Donald
L Horrocks .................................................................................................... 185
Quench Correction Considerations in Heterogeneous
Systems
A
A Noujaim, L I Wiebe and C Ediss ........................................................................... 199
The Use of the Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer in Bioluminescence
Analysis
Philip
E Stanley ........................................................................................................ 209
Quantitation of Leukocyte Chemiluminescence following
Phagocytosis:
Technical Considerations Using Liquid
Scintillation Spectrometry
D
English, A A Noujaim, T Horan and T A McPherson .................................................. 229
On the Use of Liquid Scintillation Spectrometers for
Chemiluminescence
Assay in Biochemistry
E Schram, F Demulyder, J De Rycker and H Roosens .................................................. 243
INSTRUMENTATION WORKSHOP
Instrumentation Workshop: Introduction
B
H Laney ................................................................................................................ 257
Low Background Liquid Scintillation Counters
John
E Noakes ......................................................................................................... 259
Automatic Data Processing in Scintillation Counting
Philip
E Stanley ........................................................................................................ 261
Discussion ................................................................................................................ 267
SAMPLE PREPARATION
WORKSHOP
Sample Preparation in Liquid Scintillation: Remarks
of the Session Chairman
Kent
Painter ............................................................................................................. 283
Standardization in Liquid
Scintillation Counting
E
D Bransome, Jr. .................................................................................................... 291
Adsorption in Liquid Scintillation Counting
Donald
C Wigfield ..................................................................................................... 295
Sample Oxidation for Liquid Scintillation Counting: A
Review
Walter
E Kisieleski and Evelyn M Buess ..................................................................... 299
Tissue Solubilization
R
Ferris .................................................................................................................... 309
Chemiluminescence
C T
Peng .................................................................................................................. 313
Discussion ................................................................................................................ 331
CLOSING ADDRESS - Philip E Stanley ........................................................................ 347
INDEX ...................................................................................................................... 349