Application of double focusing sector field ICP-MS for multielemental characterization of human hair and nails. Part III. Direct analysis by laser ablation

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 305, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 23-39

  Rodushkin, Ilia ^a   Axelsson, Mikael D ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hair; High resolution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Laser ablation; Nails

Indexed keywords

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; LASER ABLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; STANDARDS;

HUMAN HAIR;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

LASER METHOD;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NAIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; STANDARDIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ELEMENTS; HAIR; LASERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NAILS;

EID: 0037446076     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(02)00463-1     Document Type: Article

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