Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 3 , Pages 132-136 , May 2010

Bromide detection in blood using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence; a chemical marker supportive of drowning in seawater

  • Motonori Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo 663-8051, 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 663-8051, Japan
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  • Hajime Nishio

      Affiliations

    • Department of Legal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo 663-8051, Japan

Received 28 October 2009 ,Revised 22 January 2010 ,Accepted 25 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2010.01.006

Legal Medicine
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