The positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy was applied to the samples of the human uterine leiomyomas and the normal myometrium tissues taken from the selected place of the uterus during a surgery. The method indicated differences in values of the measured positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy parameters (lifetimes and intensities) between healthy and diseased tissue samples. The additional measurements were performed either in darkness or in presence of visible light which influenced the free radicals present in both kind of tissues and, as a result, made changes in free annihilation and o-Ps decay lifetime and intensity values.

A review of data about positron annihilation lifetime in normal alkanes is presented. It was found that positronium in rigid phase locates in the interlamellar gap, while in the rotator one in free volumes inside lamellae. Interesting effects seem to be: identity of o-Ps lifetime in rotator and liquid phase in long chain alkanes; appearance of “premature” rotator phase in nonadecane with low tricosane admixture, long-term relaxation after the changes of temperature or pressure in some binary mixtures, formation of porous structure at solidification of argon saturated alkane under high pressure.

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Positronium formation probability was investigated as a function of irradiation time and temperature for some long-chain saturated hydrocarbons (alkanes). Intensity of ortho-positronium component in the lifetime spectrum depends on the concentration of trapped excess electrons, but also on concentration of radicals and ions acting as electron scavengers. The results indicate the existence of two kinds of electron traps; those which are not emptied by thermal treatment disappear after several days of positron irradiation.

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