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Whole-body counter.
was a 28 cm diameter,

The detector chosen for field use by Brookhaven personnel
10 cm thick, sodium iodide thallium activated

scintillation crystal NaI(T1). It is optically coupled to three low
background magnetically shielded photomultiplier tubes connected in parallel
through a summing box with the combined output routed to an amplifier and then
to a microprocessor-based computer and pulse height analyzer (PHA). The PHA
data is stored on a magnetic discette, and results are analyzed in the field
and at BNL using a matrix reduction, minimization of the sum of squares
techniques.

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The gamma emitting nuclides observed have been 6520, 137¢, | 60, and

Bi.

Additionally, naturally occurring

““K is present in normal amounts.

typical counting time is 15 minutes and a typical minimum detection limit is
100 Bq (3 nCi). The whole-body counting system is currently standarized
against a human like phantom.

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