Feasibility of using beryllium as internal reference to reduce non-spectroscopic carbon species matrix effect in the inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) determination of boron in biological samples

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1813-1820

  Al Ammar, Assad S ^a   Reitznerová, Eva ^a   Barnes, Ramon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Beryllium internal reference; Boron determination; Carbon matrix effect; Charge transfer reaction; ICP MS

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001500148     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(99)00124-X     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. A. Cabot, H. Panders, Trace Element in Soil and Plants, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1984, p. 127.
2. F.N. Nielson, Evidence for the nutritional essentiality of boron, J. Trace Elem. Exp. Med. 9 (1996) 216-229.
3. C.D. Eckert, Boron stimulates embryonic trout growth, J. Nutr. 128 (1998) 2488-2493.
4. R.I. Rowe, C. Bouzan, S. Nabili, C.D. Eckhert, The response of trout and zebrafish embryos to low and high boron concentrations is U shaped, Biol. Trace Element Res. 66 (1998) 261-270.
5. C.D. Hunt, Regulation of enzymatic activity. One possible role of dietary boron in higher animals and humans, Biol. Trace Element Res. 66 (1998) 205-225.
6. S. Samman, M.R. Naghill, P.M. Lyons Wall, A.P. Verus, The nutritional and metabolic effects of boron in humans and animals, Biol. Trace Element Res. 66 (1998) 227-235.
7. D.J. Fort, T.L. Propst, E.L. Stover, P.L. Strong, F.J. Murray, Adverse reproductive and developmental effects in Xenopus from insufficient boron, Biol. Trace Element Res. 66 (1998) 237-259.
8. F. Neilsen, R. Zeisler, V. Gwinn, Nuclear Analytical Methods in the Life Sciences, Humana Press, Clifton, NJ, 1990, p. 599.
9. R. Barth, A. Soloway, R. Fairchild, Boron neutron capture therapy of cancer, Cancer Res. 50 (1990) 1061.
10. P. Argust, Distribution of boron in the environment, Biol. Trace Element Res. 66 (1998) 131-143.
11. A. Vengosh, The isotopic composition of anthropogenic boron and its potential impact on the environment, Biol. Trace Element Res. 66 (1998) 145-151.
12. P.D. Howe, A review of boron effects in the environment, Biol. Trace Element Res. 66 (1998) 153-166.
13. R.G. Downing, P.L. Strong, B.M. Hovanec, J. Northington, Considerations in the determination of boron at low concentrations, Biol. Trace Element Res. 66 (1998) 3-21.
14. R.N. Sah, P.H. Brown, Boron determination - a review of analytical methods, Microchem. J. 56 (1997) 285-304.
15. S. Evans, U. Krähenbühel, Improved boron determination in biological materials by ICP-MS, J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 9 (1994) 1249.
16. A. Nayomora, S. Sah, R. Brown, Boron determination in biological materials by ICP-AES and ICP-MS, effect of sample dissolution methods, Fresenius J. Anal. Chem. 357 (1997) 1185.
17. T.U. Probst, N.G. Berryman, P. Lemmen, L. Weissfloch, T. Auberger, D. Gabel, J. Carlsson, B. Larsson, Comparison of inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma mass spec-trometry with quantitative neutron capture radiography or the determination of boron in biological samples from cancer therapy, J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 12 (1997) 1115-1122.
18. A. Montaser, D.W. Golightly, Inductively Coupled Plasmas in Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 2nd ed., VCH Publishers, Inc, 1992, p. 581,614.
19. S. Evans, U. Krähenbühel, Boron analysis in biological material: microwave digestion procedure and determination by different methods, Fresenius J. Anal. Chem. 349 (1994) 454-459.
20. H. Vanhoe, R. Dams, C. Vandecasteele, J. Versieck, Determination of boron in human serum by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry after a simple dilution of the sample, Anal. Chim. Acta 281 (1993) 401-411.
21. R.A. Mapleton, Theory of Charge Exchange, Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1972, pp. 236-238.
22. A. G. Harrison, Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1986, p. 8.
23. A.G. Harrison, Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1986, p. 13 and Table 2, p. 14.
24. K.E. Jarvis, A.L. Gray, R.S. Houk, Handbook of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992, p. 20.
25. A.G. Harrison, Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1986, p. 10 and Table 3, p. 14.
26. E.W. McDaniel, Collision Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Wiley and Sons, New York, 1964, p. 242.
27. E.W. McDaniel, Collision Phenomena in Ionized Gases, Wiley and Sons, New York, 1964, pp. 240-244.
28. E. Larsen, S. Stürüp, Carbon-enhanced inductively coupled mass spectrometric detection of As and Se and its application to As speciation, J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 9 (1994) 1099.
29. M. Campbell, C. Demesmay, M. Olle, Determination of total arsenic concentrations in biological matrices by ICP-MS, J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 9 (1994) 1379.
30. P. Plain, L. Jaunault, Y. Mauras, J.M. Mermet, Signal enhancement of elements due to the presence of carbon-containing compounds in ICP-MS, Anal. Chem. 63 (1991) 1497.
31. C. Huang, S. Jiang, Speciation of mercury by reversed-phase liquid chromatography with ICP-MS spectrometric detection, J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 8 (1993) 681.
32. J. Goessens, F. Vanhaecke, L. Moens, R. Dams, Elimination of interference in the determination of arsenic and selenium in biological samples by ICP-MS, Anal. Chim. Acta 280 (1993) 137.
33. E. Denoyer, S. Tanner, U. Voellkopf, A new dynamic reaction cell for reducing ICP-MS interference using chemical resolution, Spectroscopy 14 (1999) 43.
34. S.D. Tanner, V.I. Baranov, Theory, design, and operation of a dynamic reaction cell for ICP-MS, At. Spectrosc. 20 (1999) 45-52.