Methodology Using a Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Device for On-Site and Rapid Evaluation of Heavy-Atom Contamination in Wounds: A Model Study for Application to Plutonium Contamination - Yoshii, Hiroshi; Yanagihara, Kouta; Imaseki, Hitoshi; Hamano, Tsuyoshi; Yamanishi, Hirokuni; Inagaki, Masayo; Sakai, Yasuhiro; Sugiura, Nobuyuki; Kurihara, Osamu; Sakai, Kazuo (PloS one, 2014)
Keywords: Actinides; Biology and Life Sciences; Blood; Contaminants; Contamination; Earthquake damage; Earthquakes; Emergency medical care; Emergency preparedness; Engineering and Technology; Epoxy resins; Equivalence; Evaluation; Fluorescence; Fukushima Nuclear Accident; Health physics; Health risks; Hemorheology; Humans; Iron; Lead; Lead - analysis; Lead - blood; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Methodology; Methods; Nuclear accidents; Nuclear energy; Nuclear power; Nuclear power plants; Onsite; Paints; Physical Sciences; Physics; Plutonium; Plutonium - analysis; Plutonium - blood; Portable equipment; Radioactive pollution; Radioactivity; Science; Scientific imaging; Seismic activity; Skin; Spectrometry, X-Ray Emission - instrumentation; Time Factors; Tsunamis; Workers; Wounds; Wounds and Injuries - blood; X ray fluorescence; X-ray spectroscopy; New York; United States--US; Japan