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Anticoincidence counting further improves detection limits of short-lived products by pseudo-cyclic instrumental neutron activation analysis

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A systematic investigation was carried out on the merits and limitations of anticoincidence counting for short-lived radionuclides (t 1/2 < 75 s) used in instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and pseudo-cyclic INAA (PC-INAA) methods for single as well as simultaneous multielement determinations in botanical and nutritional reference materials. The list of radionuclides of interest included: 108Ag, 110Ag, 165mDy, 20F, 75mGe, 179mHf, 86mRb, 46mSc, 77mSe, and 177mYb. Precision and accuracy of measurements were good, and detection limits were of the order of µg kg−1.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thankfully acknowledge the cooperation of the Dalhousie University SLOWPOKE-2 Reactor (DUSR) facility for irradiations, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada for Research Operating/Discovery, Major Facilities Access, and Research Network grants to AC, and the Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies for a stipend to WZ.

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Zhang, W., Chatt, A. Anticoincidence counting further improves detection limits of short-lived products by pseudo-cyclic instrumental neutron activation analysis. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 302, 1201–1211 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-014-3540-0

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