LIBS, LA-ICPMS and synchrotron hard X-ray micro-radiography and micro-tomography complementary study of elemental distributions in biominerals

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Authors	KAISER Jozef NOVOTNÝ Karel HOLÁ Markéta KANICKÝ Viktor MARTINEC Petr HAHN David DIWAKAR Prasoon MANCINI Lucia TROMBA Giuliana SODINI Nicola
Year of publication	2009
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemitry
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Field	Analytic chemistry
Keywords	LIBS; LA-ICP-MS; synchrotron hard X-ray micro-radiography; micro-tomography; biomineral
Description	The analysis of bio-minerals can provide information about the chronology, diet and palaeoenvironment of past populations. More specifically, e.g. line scans of uroliths cross-sections may be used to detect the accumulation history of the selected elements. This can be linked to the patient exposure to environmental effects. Together with the main components, biogenous and toxic trace elements can be monitored. Here we report on utilization of two laser-ablation based analytical techniques for mapping of elemental spatial distribution in bio-minerals, coupled to hard X-ray microradiography and micro-CT measurements for visualization of the inner structure of investigated samples.
Related projects:	Utilization of the laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and laser ablation ICP-OES/MS spectroscopy for chemical mapping of biominerals