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In Vivo X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis for Medical Diagnosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

L. Ahlgren ,
T. Grönberg  and
S. Mattsson
L. Ahlgren
Affiliation:
Radiation Physics Department, University of Lund, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden
T. Grönberg
Affiliation:
Radiation Physics Department, University of Lund, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden
S. Mattsson
Affiliation:
Radiation Physics Department, University of Lund, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden
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Occupational exposure to lead is common in many industrial applications and hence it is of considerable medical interest to control the body-burden of lead in living man. More than 90 % of the lead in the body is concentrated in bone and hence in vivo measurements of the lead in the skeleton should give the most satisfactory way for estimating the body-burden. The routine method used today for checking on lead contamination is that of measurements on blood samples. However, since the concentration of lead in the blood is a sensitive function of the actual exposure conditions, this method provides only a poor indication of the total body-burden and the integrated lead exposure.

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Other XRF Applications
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 23: Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1979 , 1979 , pp. 185 - 191
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1979

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