LIQUID-SCINTILLATION COUNTING TECHNIQUES FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF RADIONUCLIDES USED IN THERAPY

Authors
COURSEY BM CALHOUN JM CESSNA J GOLAS DB SCHIMA FJ UNTENWEGER MP
Citation
Bm. Coursey et al., LIQUID-SCINTILLATION COUNTING TECHNIQUES FOR THE STANDARDIZATION OF RADIONUCLIDES USED IN THERAPY, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 339(1-2), 1994, pp. 26-30
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
339
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
26 - 30
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1994)339:1-2<26:LCTFTS>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Radionuclides are increasingly used in therapeutic nuclear medicine. T he CIEMAT/NIST method of standardizing high-energy beta-particle emitt ers is being applied to a list of candidate radionuclides developed by the US nuclear medicine community. Standards and standard methods are needed by the pharmaceutical manufacturers in North America before th ese nuclides can be widely distributed. Solutions standardized by liqu id-scintillation counting are used to establish counting efficiencies for Cerenkov counting and NaI(Tl) well crystals, and potentiometer set tings for commercial radionuclide calibrators. Results are presented f or a number of beta-particle-emitting radionuclides.