Standardization of radium-223 by liquid scintillation counting

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 68, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 1523-1528

  Cessna, J T ^a   Zimmerman, B E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

223Ra; CIEMAT NIST method; Liquid scintillation counting

Indexed keywords

ALPHA DECAY; BETA DECAY; DEADTIME; GAMMA RAY MEASUREMENTS; HALF LIVES; LIQUID SCINTILLATION; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; PHYSIKALISCH-TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT;

DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIQUIDS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIUM; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; STANDARDIZATION; TRITIUM;

EXPERIMENTS;

RADIOISOTOPE; RADIUM 223; RADIUM 226; TRITIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA RADIATION; HALF LIFE TIME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION CHAMBER; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE TRACING; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOACTIVITY; STANDARDIZATION;

HALF-LIFE; RADIUM; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; TRITIUM;

EID: 77952954359     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2009.11.068     Document Type: Article

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