title: The lightpipe luminoscope for monitoring occupational skin contamination.
abstract: A portable luminescence detector has been constructed for monitoring occupational skin contamination. The instrument design is based upon a fiberoptics bifurcated lightguide which transmits the ultraviolet excitation light to the skin area being monitored and conducts the induced fluorescence to the photon-counting detector. The performance of the instrument has been evaluated in the laboratory and field-tested at a coal conversion facility. Preliminary results indicate that coal distillates and recycled solvents form liquefaction processes can be detected at a few muL/cm2 levels.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006224:Cricetinae; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D005453:Fluorescence; D006801:Humans; D011083:Polycyclic Compounds / Q000032:analysis*; D051381:Rats; D012306:Risk; D012867:Skin / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D011083:Polycyclic Compounds