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Programs and Projects
International Comparison of Lu-177

There has been increasing interest during the past 10 years in the use of 177 Lu for radionuclide-based radiotherapy for certain types of cancers. … more

Standards for Clinical Radionuclide Calibrators

In nuclear medicine clinics, activity measurements are typically made using commercially available radionuclide calibrators which incorporate a … more

A Study of the Irradiation-Temperature Coefficient for Alanine Film and Pellet Dosimeters at Elevated Temperature

Correcting the response of a dosimeter for the average temperature during irradiation processing improves the accuracy of the dose … more

Virtual Measurements

Compared with conventional, physical measurements, the cost of computational modeling continues to drop. This has driven many industries to … more

Photon Absorbed-Dose-to-Water Primary Standards

Computational and experimental studies to obtain correction factors for heat defect, heat transfer and scattering/perturbation for the water … more

Advanced X-ray Systems for the Detection of Special Nuclear Materials

The Dosimetry Group provides support to the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for their … more

Instruments
Laboratory Equipment - DynaPro NanoStar Dynamic Light Scattering

Location: E136 The DynaPro NanoStar is a dynamic light scattering (DLS) instrument that is used for the analysis of protein solutions, promiscuous … more

3D Atom Probe Tomography

The LEAP 4000X is a three-dimensional atom probe microscope which provides nano-scale surface, bulk and interfacial materials analysis of … more

Laboratory Equipment - Bel-Art Secador 2.0 Desiccator Cabinet

Cabinet is for the storage of humidity-sensitive items.  Cabinet is molded of a clear co-polyester plastic that is resistant to chemical … more

Software
LFPF Software

The Logistic Function Profile Fitting program, LFPF , is based on a Fortran program written for DOS and originally issued under the name LOGIT. … more

Simulated Chromatographic Data

The following information is provided as an aid in the validation of mathematical models used in quantitation with chromatographic data. This data … more

NIST Mass and Fragment Calculator Software

The NIST Mass and Fragment Calculator is a program written in Visual Basic which calculates the mass of an input peptide or protein sequence along … more

Isotope Enrichment Calculator

The NIST Isotope Enrichment Calculator is a program written in Visual Basic which determines the percentage of 15 N enrichment of stable … more

Exercise Control System

The Systems Integration Division's (SID) Manufacturing & Modeling Simulation Group (MSG) worked with San Francisco Communications to … more

Expect

* Download Expect source from SourceForge * Download Expect binaries from ActiveState * Expect Homepage Expect is a tool for automating … more

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