1. A New Counting System for Smear Test Sample
- Author
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Takiue Makoto, Fujii Haruo, and Aburai Tamaru
- Subjects
Radiation ,Materials science ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,business.industry ,High Energy Physics::Lattice ,Liquid scintillation counting ,Analytical chemistry ,Scintillator ,Particle detector ,Optics ,Sample preparation ,Smear sample ,business ,Test sample - Abstract
A smear measurement system for a low-energy β emitter has been developed, which uses a paraffin scintillator for a radiation detector. In sample preparation, the radioactive contamination on a smear sample can be solidified immediately by adding small amount of a liquid-solid reversible paraffin scintillator. This technique overcomes many disadvantages of a conventional liquid scintillation technique ever employed, and allows the smear sample to be measured repeatedly and stored.
- Published
- 1997