Determination of As by instrumental neutron activation analysis in sectioned hair samples for forensic purposes: chronic or acute poisoning?

0365923 - ÚJF 2012 RIV HU eng J - Journal Article
Kučera, Jan - Kofronova, K.
Determination of As by instrumental neutron activation analysis in sectioned hair samples for forensic purposes: chronic or acute poisoning?
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. Roč. 287, č. 3 (2011), s. 769-772. ISSN 0236-5731. E-ISSN 1588-2780
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10480505
Keywords : Instrumental neutron activation analysis * Hair * Arsenic poisoning
Subject RIV: BG - Nuclear, Atomic and Molecular Physics, Colliders
Impact factor: 1.520, year: 2011

Autopsy of 29-year old woman suspicious of committing suicide by the ingestion of As(2)O(3) yielded contradictory findings. All pathological findings as well as clinical symptoms suggested acute poisoning, while a highly elevated As level of 26.4 mu g g(-1) in her hair collected at the autopsy, which was determined with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry indicated chronic poisoning. To elucidate this discrepancy, instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) with proven accuracy was performed of another set of sectioned hair samples.
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