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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth H Purser, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J / ; B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250296 ; 250281 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to the detection of the radioisiotope carbon-14 using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS). This invention has particular relevance to the fields of attomole level (10.sup.-18 molar) tracking of chemicals in biomedicine and the environment, the testing of new classes of medical drugs, the whereabouts of chemotherapy agents within cancer patients, the elimination of the need to store and dispose of low-level carbon-14 nuclear waste and neutron exposure monitoring around nuclear reactors.