Detection of beryllium in digested autopsy tissues by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry using a high matrix interface configuration

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 403, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 409-418

  Larivière, Dominic ^a   Tremblay, Mélodie ^a   Durand Jézéquel, Myriam ^a   Tolmachev, Sergei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beryllium; Biological samples; High matrix; ICP MS; Nuclear application

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY TISSUES; BIOLOGICAL MATRIXES; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; CERTIFIED REFERENCE MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; ICP-MS; INSTRUMENTAL DESIGN; INSTRUMENTAL DETECTION; INTERNAL STANDARDIZATION; INTERNAL STANDARDS; LOW LEVEL; LUNG TISSUE; MATRIX INTERFACES; METHOD DETECTION LIMITS; NUCLEAR APPLICATION; SALT MATRICES; SAMPLE DILUTION;

BERYLLIUM; HISTOLOGY; RHODIUM; TISSUE; URANIUM;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BERYLLIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHEMISTRY; CHILD; DIGESTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMUR; HAIR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOPSY; BERYLLIUM; CHILD; DIGESTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FEMUR; HAIR; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RADIOISOTOPES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861226629     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-012-5837-6     Document Type: Article

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