Syllabus
Spring
Course Days
Lecture: Monday/Wednesday - Laboratory to be arranged
Instructor
Shawki Ibrahim, Ph.D., Professor
Telephone: (970) 491-1593
FAX: (970) 491-0623
Email: Shawki.Ibrahim@Colostate.edu
Textbooks
A list of recommended references will be made available for each lecture or group of lectures.
Course Objectives
Radionuclide handling, separation and
measurements techniques, liquid scintillation counting, bioassay, and dating techniques.
Course Prerequisites
Radiological physics and general chemistry.
Class Schedule
(Note: This schedule is tentative, and subject to change, depending on availability of
equipment and sources.)
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction - The need for radiochemical separation |
| 2 | The language of radiochemistry |
| 3 | Sample pretreatment |
| 4 | Precipitation and co-precipitation |
| 5 | Extraction: liquid-liquid |
| 6 | Extraction: ion-exchange |
| 6 | Plating: Electroplating, self-plating and microprecipitation |
| 7 | The chemistry and measurements of plutonium |
| 8 | The chemistry and measurements of radium |
| 9 | Radiotracer techniques |
| 10 | Radiotracer applications |
| 11 | Radiotracer applications |
| 12 | Standardization of radioactive sources |
| 13 | Review |
| 14 | Spring Break |
| 15 | MID TERM EXAM |
| 16 | Liquid scintillation |
| 17 | Quench correction and sample preparation |
| 18 | Cerenkov counting and application |
| 19 | Gamma radioassay |
| 20 | Bioassay techniques |
| 21 | Field sampling |
| 22 | Data reporting, counting statistics and detection limit |
| 23 | Quality assurance and quality control |
| 24 | Autoradiography |
| 25 | Isotope dilution |
| 26 | Radiodating techniques |
| 27 | Applications of neutron activation analysis |
| 28 | To be assigned |
| 29 | To be assigned |
| 30 | Review |
| FINAL EXAM |
Cheating will not be tolerated. The first time you are caught cheating you will get a ZERO for the task (exam, quiz, plagiarism on a paper or any other task). Integrity is the cornerstone of all health physics and any infraction, however slight, is not excusable for any reason. If another is found to be complicit in cheating, they too will receive a zero. If you are discovered to be cheating a second time you will receive a failing grade for the class. The Course Director will make the determination if a student has been cheating.
