Distribution of uranium and selected trace metals in Balkan human scalp hair using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

International Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 373, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sahoo, Sarata Kumar ^a   Mishra, Suchismita ^a   Žunić, Zora S ^b   Arae, Hideki ^a   Gjergj, Fran ^b   Stegnar, Peter ^c   Benedik, Ljudmila ^c   Repinc, Urška ^d   Kritsananuwat, Rawiwan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Balkan; Depleted uranium (DU); Hair; ICP MS; TIMS; Toxic heavy metals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907309871     PISSN: 13873806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijms.2014.08.020     Document Type: Article

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