Determination of certain selected bulk and trace elements in the bovine liver matrix using neutron activation analysis
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 23 (1), 66-76
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/23/1/006
Abstract
Effective utilisation of neutron activation analysis (NAA) for the elemental analysis of biomedical samples with or without a radiochemical separation, especially when optimal Ge(Li) well type detectors are employed for the acquisition of complex spectra, is demonstrated by determining normal values for 25 elements in bovine liver. Optimal conditions for the determination of Ag, Br, Cl, Co, Cs, Fe, I. K, Mn, Na, P, Rb, Sb, Sc, Se and Zn with the aid of instrumental thermal neutron activation analysis (INAA) by varying the irradiation and decay time are presented. Where INAA was inadequate, simple post irradiation separation based on ion-exchange has been used to determine such elements as Au, Ca, Cd, Ce, Cr, Cu, La, Mo and W.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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