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Environmental Factors Contributing to The Body Burden of Lead as Determined By In Vivo X-Ray Fluorescence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

S.J.S. Ryde ,
S.J. Jones ,
C.J. Evans ,
D.G. Lewis  and
W.D. Morgan
S.J.S. Ryde
Affiliation:
Swansea In Vivo Analysis Research Group Department of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering, Singleton Hospital Swansea, SA2 8QA U.K.
S.J. Jones
Affiliation:
Swansea In Vivo Analysis Research Group Department of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering, Singleton Hospital Swansea, SA2 8QA U.K.
C.J. Evans
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering, Singleton Hospital Swansea, SA2 8QA U.K. Department of Physics, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, SA2 8PP, U.K.
D.G. Lewis
Affiliation:
Swansea In Vivo Analysis Research Group Department of Physics, University of Wales Swansea, Swansea, SA2 8PP, U.K.
W.D. Morgan
Affiliation:
Swansea In Vivo Analysis Research Group Department of Medical Physics, Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TH U.K.
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Human exposure to lead may induce a variety of adverse effects on health including haematological, neurobehavioural, cardiovascular and renal changes and therefore continues to be a public health concern (Needleman 1989). Lead is dispersed in the environment from where it may be inhaled or ingested by man. Environmental exposure may arise from a number of potential sources: typically industrial emissions, exhaust from petrol engines, drinking water, foodstuffs, paint, soldered cans, lead glazed earthenware, dust and soil. A further source is tobacco smoke.

Type
VIII. In Vivo Applications of XRS
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 38: Forty-third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis , 1994 , pp. 633 - 639
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1994

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