Publisher's Synopsis
This work brings together the many different ways that have been designed to prepare the samples in a form suitable for liquid scintilation counting. An excellent laboratory manual, the contents list: general principles of liquid scintillation spectrometry; counting systems; preprocessing techniques; animal tissue processing; botanical aspects; cell cultures; extracts and chromatographic eluates; macromolecules; electrophoresis, centrifugation and chromatography on solid supports; inorganic applications; quench correction methods, multiple isotope counting and data evaluation; geophysics and archaeology; miscellaneous applications and future prospects