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Possibilities of using simultaneous ion-induced nuclear and atomic activation for the characterization of hair

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The possibility of a simultaneous determination of low and medium Z elements in hair in a single ion beam exposure was studied. Different ion beams, proton, deuteron,3He and18O, at velocities ranging from 2.7–6.9 MeV/amu were investigated. In this work,18 8O4+ beam was found to give the best experimental condition in terms of sensitivity and number of elements detected. The detection limits in a single hair ranged from 2.9·10−5 μg for Fe to 0.72 μg for H using this beam.

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Yulo, M.S., Schweikert, E.A. Possibilities of using simultaneous ion-induced nuclear and atomic activation for the characterization of hair. J. Radioanal. Chem. 57, 113–120 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02519871

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