Non-invasive in vivo molecular imaging using radionuclides is based on the Radiotracer Principle of G. von Hevesy and the magic bullet concept by Ehrlich (1990). Both principles require administration of a radioactive tracer (a molecule labelled with a radioactive isotope which when injected into a living object can be traced by external radiation detection devices) and require that the quantit...

Applications such as environment monitoring implying alpha emitters activity measurement associated with isotope identification, require high-energy resolution detectors. Conventional silicon detectors are inexpensive therefore widely used, although intrinsically limited in energy resolution. Thermal detection principle of cryogenic detectors introduces a breakthrough in alpha particle measurem...

An internal standard, [(13)C][indole-2]-indole-3-butyric acid, was synthesized from indole-2[(13)C] and was shown to be effective for the quantitative determination of indole-3-butyric acid from plant tissue. When this standard was used along with [(13)C(6)]indole-3-acetic acid, both indolic auxins could be quantified from the same tobacco (Nicotiana tabacam) leaf sample by isotope dilution ana...

Radiological source search is a challenging task involving detection and identification of weak sources in constantly changing radiological background. As now, many algorithms have been proposed; however, their computational complexity and, hence, reliance on power intensive processing units inhibit low-power applications systems. In this work, we introduce the anomaly filter (AF) algorithm; co...

This report describes the construction and performance characteristics of a device capable of making rapid serial measurement of rat brain radioactivity following the administration of a positron emitting isotope. Two bismuth germanate oxide (BGO) scintillation detectors in a coincidence detection circuit are used to achieve the necessary degree of collimation. Data from the device can be used ...

Direct dark matter detection is considered in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM). The effective neutralino-quark Lagrangian is obtained and event rates are calculated for the Ge isotope. Accelerator and cosmological constraints on the NMSSM parameter space are included. By means of scanning the parameter space at the Fermi scale we show that the lightest neutralino could ...

it is very important to determine the stable nitrogen isotope ratio for the nitrogenous substances in aerosols and the geochemistry behavior of stable nitrate ion isotopes in aerosols in order to elucidate the chemical and physical functions of clouds. hence, aerosol field sampling was conducted in the skies offshore from malibu beach and santa barbara, california, u.s.a. on 16 and 18 july 200...

the relationship between qt dispersion and myocardial ischemia is still controversial. therefore, we aimed to investigate the relationship between qtd and the severity and extent of myocardial ischemia. in this cross-sectional study, 141 patients having symptoms of cad who referred to our medical center during 2009-2010, and were examined with myocardial isotope scan and ecg, were enrolled. bas...

Radio-isotope techniques for the detection of intracardiac shunts have often employed extemal counting over the praecordium (Prinzmetal, Corday, Spritzler, and Flieg, 1949; Huff, Parrish, and Crockett, 1957; Greenspan, Lester, Marvin, and Amplatz, 1959; Turner, Salazar, and Gorlin, 1960; Shapiro and Sharpe, 1960). However, Folse and Braunwald (1962) counted over the upper lung field and claimed...