Determination of lead, cadmium and mercury in blood for assessment of environmental exposure: A comparison between inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry and atomic absorption spectrometry

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 980-990

  Palmer, Christopher D ^a   Lewis Jr , Miles E ^a   Geraghty, Ciaran M ^a   Barbosa Jr , Fernando ^b   Parsons, Patrick J ^a,c  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic absorption spectrometry; Blood; Cadmium; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Lead

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METALS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; MASS SPECTROMETERS; TOXIC MATERIALS; TRACE ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOMONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TOXIC METALS;

BLOOD;

EID: 33750286237     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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