Portable XRF Technology to Quantify Pb in Bone In Vivo

Table 4

Bone Pb concentrations for cadaver bone covered with 3 mm Lucite.

Cadaver bone ID	KXRF	Background subtraction	Bone calibration	Bone adjustment
6900	23.12	20.92	22.44	11.66
7202	22.17	16.72	18.53	8.14
6918	21.17	2.97	−1.35	−14.21
7131	20.77	18.10	11.76	9.61
7162	18.36	12.07	6.55	4.33
7002	13.54	10.80	13.55	3.25
6895	9.82	12.94	14.69	5.26