Biological and medical application of SR from the storage rings of VEPP-3 and “Siberia-2”. The origin of specific changes of small-angle X-ray diffraction pattern of hair and their correlation with the elemental content

• Published in: Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment Vol. 470; no. 1; pp. 380 - 387
• Main Authors: Aksirov, A.M, Gerasimov, V.S, Kondratyev, V.I, Korneev, V.N, Kulipanov, G.N, Lanina, N.F, Letyagin, V.P, Mezentsev, N.A, Sergienko, P.M, Tolochko, B.P, Trounova, V.A, Vazina, A.A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.09.2001
• Subjects: Ecology; Extracellular matrix; Fluorescence; Intermediate filament; Noninvasive medical procedures; Pathology; X ray diffraction analysis; X-ray diffraction of hair; X-ray fluorescent analysis; 42.25.Fx; 42.62.Be; X-ray diffraction of hair; X-ray fluorescent analysis; Extracellular matrix; 83.80.Lz; Intermediate filament; 41.60.Ap
• ISSN: 0168-9002; 1872-9576
• DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(01)01083-X

X-ray diffraction and fluorescent investigations of human hair were carried out using SR of VEPP-3. The small-angle techniques were used for ecological monitoring and medical diagnostics of pathological states of human organisms with the usage of non-invasive methods for express analysis of biological objects, including human and animal tissues: nails, wool and hair samples. Possibility using of hair fibre diffraction to test for pathological conditions is the subject of this paper. X-ray diffraction data allowed us to suppose the two-component structural model of the hair tissue.