53RD ANNUAL HEALTH PHYSICS SOCIETY MEETING
Faculty advisor Dr. Thomas E. Johnson with some of the graduate student members of the CSU Student Branch
of the Health Physics Society.
For further details of the 2008 meeting, held in Pittsburgh, PA, please visit the
Health Physics Society web site.

Downtown Pittsburgh
The 53rd Annual Health Physics Society Meeting - Health Physics Student Presentations
• Improving the Performance of a Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter to high Energy Heavy
Ions Using Gases with High Multiplication Factors, Lisa Manglass (presenter),
T.B. Borak
• Skyshine Radiation due to the Colorado State University Veterinary medical Center Trilogy
Accelerator (first place award winning presentation), Deidre Elder, J.F. Harmon, T.B. Borak
• Decontamination of Medical Radioisotopes from Hard Surfaces using Peelable Polymer Based
Decontamination Agents. Amanda Draine (presenter), Ken Walter, Mike O'Neil, Gary Edgington,
T.E. Johnson
• The Long Path of Tc-99m Production in North America, Margaret Cervera (presenter),
Edward Waller,
T.E. Johnson
• Qualitative Assay of Radionuclide Species in Fly Ash and Bottom Ash from Coal
Combustion (poster) Jeff Hibbert, Rui Zhang, T.E. Johnson
• Water Quality Impacts of In-Situ Leach Uranium Mining (poster), Angela Coler,
Howard
Ramsdell, T.E.Johnson
Contact Information:
Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences
Molecular and Radiological Biosciences Building (MRB)
1618 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Phone: 970-491-5222
Fax: 970-491-0623
Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH)
1620 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Phone: 970-297-4253
Fax: 970-297-1254