Antimony, Lead, Cadmium, Platinum, Mercury, Tellurium, Thallium, Bismuth, Tungsten, Tin [Biomonitoring Methods, 1999]

Published in the series Analyses of Hazardous Substances in Biological Materials, Vol. 6 (1999) The article contains sections titled: General principles Equipment, chemicals and solutions Equipment Chemicals Solutions Solution of the internal standard (rhodium and iridium) Standard addition solution Specimen collection and sample preparation Specimen collection UV digestion Operational parameters for ICP-MS Plasma settings MS parameters (Q-ICP-MS) Analytical determination Calibration and calculation of the analytical result Standardization and quality control Reliability of the method Precision Accuracy Detection limits Sources of error Discussion of the method Appendix Keywords: determination in urine; inductively coupled plasma-quadrupole mass spectrometry; quadrupole ICP-MS; analysis in biological materials; occupational monitoring; analytical method; biomarker; metabolites