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INAA with anticoincidence counting significantly reduces interferences from the 554.3-keV photopeak of 82Br to allow reliable measurements of nanogram levels of arsenic in solid biological materials via the 559.1-keV photopeak of 76As

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It is rather difficult to measure low levels of arsenic by instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) in biological materials containing high levels of bromine and antimony in particular, as well as sodium and potassium. The 559.1-keV photopeak of 76As is interfered with by the 554.3- and 564.1-keV photopeaks of 82Br and 122Sb, respectively. The use of INAA in conjunction with anticoincidence spectrometry (INAA-AC) was found to reduce the background under the 559.1-keV photopeak by factors of 4–16 for the biological reference materials analyzed and to decrease the detection limit to 0.35 µg kg−1 making the measurement of nanogram amounts arsenic in them possible.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of Dr. J. Holzbecher and Blaine Zwicker of the DUSR facility for irradiations. The financial assistance from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada in the form of Discovery and Infrastructure Grants (AC) and the Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies for a scholarship (WZ) are also acknowledged. This paper was presented at RadChem 2018 held during 2018 May 13–18 in Mariánské Lázně, Czech Republic.

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Zhang, W., Chatt, A. INAA with anticoincidence counting significantly reduces interferences from the 554.3-keV photopeak of 82Br to allow reliable measurements of nanogram levels of arsenic in solid biological materials via the 559.1-keV photopeak of 76As. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 318, 1671–1680 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6280-8

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