Scinfi, a program to calculate the standardization curve in liquid scintillation counting

A code, Scinfi, was developed, written in Basic, to compute the efficiency-quench standardization curve for any radionuclide. The program requires the standardization curve for 3H and the polynomial relations between counting efficiency and figure of merit for both 3H and the problem (e.g. 14C). The program is applied to the computation of the efficiency-quench standardization curve for 14C. Five different liquid scintillation spectrometers and two scintillator solutions have been checked. The computation results are compared with the experimental values obtained with a set of 14C standardized samples. (author)