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Polarized Radiation for X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Leon Kaufman  and
David C. Camp
Leon Kaufman
Affiliation:
University of California Medical School, San Francisco, California 94143
David C. Camp
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, California
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The use of non-radioactive tracers for measuring certain clinically significant parameters by x-ray fluorescence analysis (XRFA) is well established at our institution (1,2). Among the technique's advantages are high accuracy, simplicity, cost effectiveness and reduced or eliminated radiation exposure to patients. One of the more versatile tracers is iodine, which has a low body toxicity and desirable chemical properties, e.g. it is easily bound to organic molecules. Other elements of interest are cesium (3), a potassium analogue of low toxicity; and xenon, the highest atomic number, stable, noble gas.

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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 18: Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 7-9, 1974 , 1974 , pp. 247 - 258
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1974

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