Fast-response flow-based method for evaluating I from biological and hospital waste samples exploiting liquid scintillation detection.

This paper presents a fast and automatic flow-based method to extract I from biological samples and hospital waste, previous to liquid scintillation detection. I is a radionuclide extensively used in Nuclear Medicine due to their beta and gamma disintegrations, whereby hospitals have to manage the associated waste generation. The automatic developed system is based on Lab-On-Valve (LOV) flow-technique exploiting Cl-resin (135 mg per extraction).