Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 102-103 , March 2010

Detection of metallic elements from paraffin-embedded tissue blocks by energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

  • Motonori Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Legal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan. Tel.: +81 798 45 6578; fax: +81 798 49 3279.
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  • Hiroshi Kinoshita

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan
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  • Minori Nishiguchi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan
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  • Hajime Nishio

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo 663-8501, Japan

Received 19 November 2009 ,Revised 11 December 2009 ,Accepted 11 December 2009.

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PII: S1344-6223(09)00387-3

doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.12.003

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 102-103 , March 2010

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