Year of Installation: 2009
Liquid scintillation counting (LSC) is the standard laboratory method to quantify the radioactivity of low energy radioisotopes like alpha, beta & gamma. LSC detection method requires specific cocktails to absorb the energy into detectable light pulses. Liquid scintillation cocktails absorb the energy emitted by radioisotopes and re-emit it as flashes of light. Absorption and re-emission accomplished by cocktails containing two basic components, the solvent and the phosphor(s). The solvent carries out the bulk of the energy absorption. Molecules of phosphor are dissolved in the solvent which convert the absorbed energy into light. Many cocktails contain additional materials which extend their range of use to different sample compositions, but the solvent and the phosphor provide the scintillation of the mixture. The Tri- Carb 2810TR is a range of computer-controlled benchtop liquid scintillation analyzer.
LSC can be applied in fields like biosciences, medicine, environmental and space sciences, chemistry and physics. These applications include:
1. Dual labeled counting
2. SCerenkov counting.
3. Radioimmunoassay
4. Pulse shape discrimination
5. Chemiluminescence and bioluminescence.
6. Estimation of cell proliferation.
