1. Basic Design and Synthesis of Sulfonated Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based on Gadolinium Complexes

   • Hiroki Hifumi
   • Akihiro Tanimoto
   • Koji Suzuki

   Original Papers 10 October 2007 Pages: 1159 - 1165

2. Fluorescence Response Mechanism of d-Glucose Selectivity for Supramolecular Probes Composed of Phenylboronic-acid-modified β-Cyclodextrin and Styrylpyridinium Dyes

   • Iwao Suzuki
   • Akiyo Yamauchi
   • Takashi Hayashita

   Original Paper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1167 - 1171

3. Determination of Carbendazim in Bananas by Excitation-Emission Matrix Fluorescence with Three Second-order Calibration Methods

   • Shao-Hua Zhu
   • Hai-Long Wu
   • Yan Zhang

   OriginalPaper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1173 - 1177

4. Flow-through Fluorescence-based Optosensor for the Screening of Zinc in Drinking Water

   • Juan F. García-Reyes
   • Pilar Ortega-Barrales
   • Antonio Molina-Díaz

   Original Paper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1179 - 1183

5. Trace Elemental Analysis of Commercial Bottled Drinking Water by a Portable Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer

   • Shinsuke Kunimura
   • Jun Kawai

   OriginalPaper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1185 - 1188

6. Sensitive Monitoring of Humic Acid in Various Aquatic Environments with Acidic Cerium Chemiluminescence Detection

   • Xianglei Cheng
   • Lixia Zhao
   • Jin-Ming Lin

   OriginalPaper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1189 - 1193

7. Development of an On-line Low Gas Pressure Cell for Laser Ablation-ICP-Mass Spectrometry

   • Takafumi Hirata

   OriginalPaper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1195 - 1201

8. Synthesis of Cross-linked Chitosan Modified with the Glycine Moiety for the Collection/Concentration of Bismuth in Aquatic Samples for ICP-MS Determination

   • Koji Oshita
   • Osamu Noguchi
   • Shoji Motomizu

   OriginalPaper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1203 - 1208

9. Detection of Al(III) and Ga(III) Complexes with Morin by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

   • Chutima Septhum
   • Jody Morgan
   • Vichitr Rattanaphani

   OriginalPaper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1209 - 1214

10. Precise Chelatometric Titrations of Zinc, Cadmium, and Lead with Molecular Spectroscopy

    • Toshihiro Suzuki
    • Diwakar Tiwari
    • Akiharu Hioki

    Original Paper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1215 - 1220

11. Determination of 1-Hydroxypyrene in Human Urine by Acid Hydrolysis Coupled to Solid-Phase Microextraction and Semi-microcolumn Liquid Chromatography

    • Hong-Wen Chen

    OriginalPaper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1221 - 1225

12. Spectrophotometric Flow Injection Methods for Zinc Determination in Pharmaceutical and Biological Samples

    • Ivanise Gaubeur
    • Lúcia Helena S. Ávila-Terra
    • Maria Encarnación V. Suárez-Iha

    OriginalPaper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1227 - 1231

13. Electron Spin Resonance Analysis of Superoxide Anion Radical Scavenging Activity with Spin Trapping Agent, Diphenyl-PMPO

    • Tomoko Shimamura
    • Yume Fujimura
    • Hiroyuki Ukeda

    OriginalPaper 10 October 2007 Pages: 1233 - 1235

14. Optical Parameter Dependence of Fluorescence Correlation Spectrometry without Using Magnification Tools

    • Kitao Fujiwara
    • Shun Hirokawa
    • Motohide Aoki

    Notes 10 October 2007 Pages: 1237 - 1239

15. Comparison of Second Derivative-Spectrophotometric and Reversed-phase HPLC Methods for the Determination of Prednisolone in Pharmaceutical Formulations

    • D. K. Singh
    • Rohan Verma

    Notes 10 October 2007 Pages: 1241 - 1243

16. Evaluation of Behavioral Differences between Native Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and ¹³C-Labeled Internal Standards during Clean-up Steps of Analysis

    • Nobuyasu Itoh
    • Masahiko Numata
    • Takashi Yarita

    Notes 10 October 2007 Pages: 1245 - 1248

17. Carrier Mobility for Organic Semiconductors: Reduction of Noise of the Short Part Drift Time in the Time of Flight Mobility Method

    • Ken Kashima
    • Hiroshi Sato
    • Tamotsu Takahashi

    Advancements in Instrumentation 10 October 2007 Pages: 1249 - 1251

18. Announcements

    Announcement 19 October 2007 Pages: 1253 - 1256