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Applications For X-Ray Fluorescence Scans of Single Strands of Hair: Actual and Potential

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Taft Y. Toribara
Taft Y. Toribara*
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Department of Biophysics and the Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642
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Quantitative utilization of energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry has been made for many years, and the development of instruments for this purpose have arisen from needs which can be met by the sensitivity of the technique. In a need to get information which could be obtained only by scanning single strands of hair to obtain the profile of the mercury levels along the hair, a unique X-ray fluorescence energy dispersive spectrometer was built. The prototype of this instrument was described at the Denver Conference of 1977, and published in the subsequent publication (1). The present instrument is described in a later publication (2).

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V. XRF Applications; Fuels and Lubricants, Metals and Alloys, Geological, Heavy Element, Other
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 30: Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 4-8, 1986 , 1986 , pp. 293 - 302
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1986

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