Determination of 241Am in Urine Using Sector Field Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (SF-ICP-MS)

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• Alternative Title:
  J Radioanal Nucl Chem
• Personal Author:
  Xiao, Ge ; Saunders, David ; Jones, Robert L. ; Caldwell, Kathleen L.
• Description:
  Quantification of |Am in urine at low levels is important for assessment of individuals' or populations' accidental, environmental, or terrorism-related internal contamination, but no convenient, precise method has been established to rapidly determine these low levels. Here we report a new analytical method to measure |Am as developed and validated at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by means of the selective retention of Am from urine directly on DGA resin, followed by SF-ICP-MS detection. The method provides rapid results with a Limit of Detection (LOD) of 0.22 pg/L (0.028 Bq/L), which is lower than 1/3 of the C/P CDG for |Am at 5 days post-exposure. The results obtained by this method closely agree with CDC values as measured by Liquid Scintillation Counting, and with National Institute of Standards Technology (NIST) Certified Reference Materials (CRM) target values.
• Subjects:
  Article
• Source:
  J Radioanal Nucl Chem. 301(1):285-291
• Pubmed ID:
  27375308
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4930159
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  301
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ec90595c5ff6407133a54d72104a7fc0cf8ae955d993835dcbadcb9ffb008bff
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40321/cdc_40321_DS1.pdf
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