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Secondary Target X-ray Excitation for In Vivo Measurement of Lead in Bone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

P. A. Pella  and
C. G. Soares
P. A. Pella
Affiliation:
National Institute of Standards & Technology Center for Analytical Chemistry Gaithersburg, MD 20899
C. G. Soares
Affiliation:
National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Radiation Research Gaithersburg, MD 20899
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Environmental lead exposure continues to be a health hazard, especially to young children, and is a serious problem In the U.S. Since lead is stored in the skeleton, measurement of lead in bone (e.g. finger or tibia) can serve as an Indicator of lifetime exposure. Energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence (XRF) currently seems to be the method of choice for non-Invasive testing, and is expected to be further developed for screening purposes.

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VI. Geological and Other Applications of X-Ray Spectrometry
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 34: Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1990 , 1990 , pp. 293 - 298
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1990

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