Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "The Glowing Crystals Behind a PET Scan" video.

  1. FYI: if you want to see scintillation (and check the UV absorption of your windows), get a gatorade bottle safely plastic seal: in sunlight it will emit bright violet light out of the sides: that is UV converted to visible via scintillation. Works best on a low-cloud day. You can also put tonic water in a black light, it will glow blue...same color as Froto's sword.
    6
  2. In the nuclear physics community, the down side of doing an experiment at BNL is getting Lyme's disease.
    2
  3. tonic water works well, too.
    1
  4. don't forget ortho-positronium's 3-gamma decay.
    1
  5.  @SF-fb6lv  no, it’s all about phase space, like in beta decay.
    1
  6.  @karhukivi  where I’m from scintillation is fluorescence, and phosphorescence is delayed fluorescence, unless it is microwaves, then scintillation is speckle noise
    1
  7. or 0 degrees R
    1
  8. Have had some bad experience digging through lab trash: be careful.
    1
  9. So in PET scans, doctors put antimatter in your brain to annihilate some it so they can image it. WTaF?. And y'all complaining about injecting bleach?
    1