Liquid scintillation counters calibration stability over long timescales

Liquid scintillation spectrometry is widely used for the analysis of alpha and beta emitting radionuclides. Robust calibration of liquid scintillation (LS) spectrometers is fundamental to accurate LS measurement but at the same time is time consuming and costly, particularly if a wide range of radio...

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Autores principales: Gaca, Pawel, Warwick, Phillip E., Croudace, Ian W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5658465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29104339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5388-6
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description Liquid scintillation spectrometry is widely used for the analysis of alpha and beta emitting radionuclides. Robust calibration of liquid scintillation (LS) spectrometers is fundamental to accurate LS measurement but at the same time is time consuming and costly, particularly if a wide range of radionuclides are analysed by the laboratory. The frequency of the calibration varies in different laboratories and is based on many practical and operational factors. This work summarizes the observations regarding variations in 1220 Quantulus spectrometers efficiency calibrations performed annually using various radionuclides: (3)H (63)Ni, (55)Fe, (36)Cl, (45)Ca, (147)Pm, (241)Pu, (99)Tc for a period of 9 years and discusses the implication to calibration frequency.
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spelling pubmed-56584652017-11-03 Liquid scintillation counters calibration stability over long timescales Gaca, Pawel Warwick, Phillip E. Croudace, Ian W. J Radioanal Nucl Chem Article Liquid scintillation spectrometry is widely used for the analysis of alpha and beta emitting radionuclides. Robust calibration of liquid scintillation (LS) spectrometers is fundamental to accurate LS measurement but at the same time is time consuming and costly, particularly if a wide range of radionuclides are analysed by the laboratory. The frequency of the calibration varies in different laboratories and is based on many practical and operational factors. This work summarizes the observations regarding variations in 1220 Quantulus spectrometers efficiency calibrations performed annually using various radionuclides: (3)H (63)Ni, (55)Fe, (36)Cl, (45)Ca, (147)Pm, (241)Pu, (99)Tc for a period of 9 years and discusses the implication to calibration frequency. Springer Netherlands 2017-08-09 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5658465/ /pubmed/29104339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5388-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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