Applications of liquid scintillation counting (Horrocks, Donald L.)

Liquid Scintillation Counting

discussed, and he points out that merely because a disease is found to be familial in incidence does not mean it is hereditarily transmitted; leprosy, for instance, was long held to be a hereditary disease, and a law was actually proposed in the Norwegian Parliament forbidding the marriage of lepers for that reason. It was only with the discovery of the leprosy bacillus by Hansen that the true ...

Cocktails for Liquid Scintillation Counting

It is most important to assure 4 π−geometry in liquid scintillation counting for accurate results1. Usually this can be assured by dissolution of the sample in an appropriate cocktail. The cocktail does not only contain a solvent but also at least one scintillator and surfactants for aqueous samples because aqueous samples are completely insoluble in the pure organic solvents and scintillators....

Determination of accurate counting efficiency for liquid scintillation counting.

Liquid-Scintillation Counting of 14C-Labelled Animal Tissues

Developments of liquid-scintillation counting as a practical method for the assay of radioisotopes in biological samples followed work by Reynolds, Harrison & Salvini (1950) and Kailmann & Furst (1950). Reviews of progress and developments in liquid-scintillation counting have been given by Davidson & Fiegelson (1957) and Bell & Hayes (1958). Guinn (1958) and Stitch (1959) have reviewed the adv...

Low Level Liquid Scintillation Counting of Radioactivity in Food Products

The production rate is 7.5 kg isotope C-14 yearly. The C-14 concentration stays approximately constant due to rapid mixing of the atmosphere, although the cosmic intensity is higher at the poles due to the deflection of charged cosmic particles along the magnetic field lines of the earth (corresponding to neutron intensities in the ratio 5:1 at the poles and the equator, respectively). Conseque...