Xe-133 Trapping

["Michael P. Grissom" <MIKEG%SLACVM.bitnet@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu>]

1.  A number of commercial xenon traps have been manufactured for
use in trapping Xe-133 in nuclear medicine laboratories involving
various kinds of rebreathing systems.  I believe Atomic Products
still manufactures them.  Straight pump fed charcoal beds (usually
in U-shaped tubes) are also available.  These can be used to handle
fume hood exhaust streams when breaking Xe-133 gas ampoules for dose
preparations.  Johnston labs makes a nice xenon detection system
that we used to use to verify no breakthrough of xenon on the exhaust
end of the system.
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