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Summary
In the domain of radiotoxicology, the determination of beta emitting radionuclides in urine samples is a valuable tool in occupational radiation protection and in emergency situations, in that it enables to obtain relevant data for accurate calculation of committed effective dose to workers or other potentially contaminated people, e.g. in a mass accident.
With the aim of eliminating the need of time-consuming and complex radiochemical separation procedures used in quantitative determinations of virtually every pure beta emitting radionuclide of common interest (e.g. Sr-90), in this work we present an original and simple analytical method which exploits simultaneously Liquid Scintillation Counting (LSC) and gamma spectrometry for the qualitative determination of total beta emitting radionuclides in urine samples.
This method may be a useful and relatively simple tool for screening purposes both in occupational radiation protection and in emergency situations.
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