Portable XRF Technology to Quantify Pb in Bone In Vivo

Table 3

Bone Pb concentrations for bare cadaver bone calculated using different calibration methods.

Cadaver bone ID	KXRF	Background subtraction	Bone calibration	Bone adjustment
6900	23.12	23.44	23.63	22.21
7202	22.17	19.23	19.94	18.48
6918	21.17	9.35	11.30	9.50
7131	20.77	25.59	25.53	24.34
7031	19.70	24.09	26.18	23.39
7162	18.36	17.91	18.81	17.48
7042	14.27	16.05	18.33	16.10
7002	13.54	15.29	16.48	15.15
6895	9.82	15.91	17.04	15.59
7168	3.64	1.08	3.82	−1.86