TABLE OF CONTENTS
Liquid Scintillation Counting Volume 5
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. SAMPLE PREPARATION
Some Problems in Sample Preparation for Liquid Scintillation Counting
and Their Solutions
E D Bransome, Jr. and J L O'Connor ................................................................................ 3
Determination of Strontium-90 and Strontium 89 in Environmental Samples
by Liquid Scintillation Counting
L Salonen .................................................................................................................... 17
Radioluminescence in Scintillators in Tritium-Labelled Solution of Polymers
J Gebicki, W Reimschussel and Z Tolwinska-Stanczyk .................................................... 32
Efficiency of Tritum Detection in Toluene-Cyclohexane-Polystyrene-PPO System
J Gebicki, W Reimschussel and J Rudzinski .................................................................... 41
Determination of P-32 in Biological Samples by Cerenkov Counting
B S W Smith ................................................................................................................ 45
Preparation of the Quenched Standards and Their Durability
K Hoizumi .................................................................................................................... 50
Low-Level Scintillation Counting Method for Determination of U and Ra
B Kabelova, H Prochazka, J Katzer and K Stamberg ........................................................ 56
II. RECENT ADVANCES IN IMMUNOASSAY
Recent Advances in Immunoassay
R Edwards, J Landon and L Rees ................................................................................... 63
Comparison of the Use of Beta Scintillation Counting and Gamma Counting
for the Radioimmunoassay of Steroids
R M Allen and M R Redshaw .......................................................................................... 70
The Application of Analytical Bioluminescence to the Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique for the Assay of Anticonvulsant Drugs in Plasma
P E Stanley .................................................................................................................. 79
The Use of Heavy Metal Loaded Scintillators for Counting Electron Capture Radionuclides in the Presence of Tritium
G Ayrey ....................................................................................................................... 85
A Substance in the Plasma of Normal Humans which Interferes in a
Radioimmunoassay for Alpha-Lactalbumin
D J R Laurence, U Stevens and M G Ormerod................................................................. 93
The Use of Low-Volume High-Capacity Scintillation Cocktails in the Automation of Steroid Radioimmunoassays
G L Hammond, R Vihko and L Viinikka ........................................................................... 97
The Radioimmunoassay of Nortriptyline and Other Tricyclic Antidepressants
G W Aherne, V Marks, G P Mould and G Stout ............................................................. 103
III. WHOLE BODY COUNTING
In Vivo Analysis and the Whole-Body Radiation Counter
L Burkinshaw ............................................................................................................. 111
What is the Value of Whole-Body Counting in Medicine?
K Boddy ..................................................................................................................... 123
Multi-Element Analysis of the Living Human Body by Neutron Activation Analysis
L Burkinshaw, I D McCarthy, C B Oxby and A Sharafi ................................................... 129
The Use of Fe-52 and a Quantitative Whole Body Scanner for Bone Marrow Imaging: The Influence of the Mn-52-m Daughter
S C Lillicrap, P H S Smith and H A Steere ..................................................................... 137
IV. ADVANCES IN INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNIQUE
A New Method of Quench Monitoring in Liquid Scintillation Counting:
The H Number Concept
D L Horrocks .............................................................................................................. 145
On-Line Scintillation Counters in a Drug Development Environment
P Johnson, J McCulloch, T J Rising and D Smith ........................................................... 169
On-Line Liquid Scintillation Counting
M R Kibby ................................................................................................................... 177
The Performance of Liquid Scintillation Counters Using Large and Small Vials
D H Moore, J J Marcec, A R Reich and J G Ring ............................................................. 182
Gas-Liquid Fractional Interaction Column (Galific) as a Trapping Device in Sample Oxidizers
P Juhala and N Kaartinen ............................................................................................ 191
Liquid Scintillation Counting of Co2-14 as Na2 CO3-14
R Hardy and J Murray ................................................................................................. 195
V. LOW LEVEL COUNTING
Synthesis of Benzene for Low-Level C-14 Measurement: A Review
R Burleigh, A D Hewson and K J Matthews .................................................................. 205
Liquid Scintillation Counting of Low Level C-14
R L Otlet and R M Warchal .......................................................................................... 210
SUBJECT INDEX ......................................................................................................... 219
INDEX TO CONTRIBUTORS ......................................................................................... 221