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A -- PARTIEST TO COMMERCIALIZE AND/OR LICENSE PNNL'S FIBEROPTIC, REAL-TIME RADIATION MONITORING SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY. SOL sources sought DUE 061099 POC Kim Freund (509) 372-4573 E-MAIL: jennifer.miles@pnl.gov, kimberlie.freund@pnl.gov. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) seeks interested parties to commercialize and/or license PNNL's fiberoptic, real-time radiation monitoring systems technology. The benefits of real-time radiation dose measurements in high flux environments with a small physical footprint devices for minimally invasive, difficult to access in-situ measurements were successfully demonstrated by PNNL. Applications for the devices span medical diagnostics and therapeutics, food sterilization, industrial processing, and limited access inspections. Detectors can be optimized for alpha, beta, gamma, x-ray, and neutron sources. The patented approach (US 5,704,890) employs a short section of scintillating fiber less than 2mm in diameter attached to the end of a more conventional optical fiber up to 10m long. This potentially disposable detector arrangement is then coupled to a photo-multiplier tube for photon detection. Interested companies must submit a statement of interest, including brief descriptions of the company's financial and technical resources, its experience in manufacturing and marketing related instrumentation, and its experience in the medical industry. Responses are due by May 10, 1999, to the attention of Kim Freund, Battelle Memorial Institute, MS K8-11, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, or via facsimile at (509) 375-2345. Posted 04/08/99 (W-SN317910). (0098)

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