Welcome at LARI!

The Laboratory for Radioisotopes (LARI) is a service and research facility of the University Göttingen and part of the Department of forest botany and tree physiology. It offers the following service to members of the University and external users:

Measuring radionuclides

We measure:

  • Environmental samples
  • Enriched samples
  • Contamination samples

We can detect:

  • Beta radioation
  • Gammas radioation
  • (Alpha radiation)

Measurement devices:

  • Liquid scintillation counters
  • Gammaspectrometry
  • Gammacounter
  • Phosphoimager

Sample preparation methods:

  • Milling
  • Combustion
  • Acid pressured digestion

Measuring radionuclides

A place to carry out your experiments

We offer the following infrastrucutre for experimental work:

  • Laboratory workplace within a radioation protection area
  • Phytochambers
  • Trained personel for sample preparation and measurements
  • Radiation protection offivers to ensure a safe work environment when handling radionuclides
LARI is listed as Research Infrastructure of the DFG.


Experiments using radionuclides