Trends of development in plasma techniques for atomic spectrometric analysis: A review

Mass Spectrometry in Environmental Sciences

“…Reviews in 1999 covered general applications of ICP-MS, 92 metal speciation by SPME-combustion-ICP-MS, 93 and the analysis of geological materials by ICP-MS. 94 Reviews in 1998 covered the use of ICP-MS for elemental speciation studies 95 and applications of multiple-collector-ICP-MS to cosmochemistry, geochemistry, and paleoceanography. 96 Several other reviews were published from 1992 to 1997, including general environmental applications of ICP-MS [97][98][99][100][101] and applications to radionuclides, 102 rare-earth compounds, 103 biological and environmental samples, 104 and geochemistry and hydrology. 105 Two reviews discussed chromatography coupled with ICP-MS. 106,107 In 1995, Heumann et al reviewed recent developments in thermal ionization-MS techniques for isotope analyses.…”

“…Mercury has been measured in whole blood and urine using ICP-MS 1101 and in hair using cold vapor atomic adsorption-ICP-MS. 1102 High-resolution ICP-MS has been used to determine radionuclides in human body fluid samples, 1103 and flow injection-ICP-MS has been used to determine uranium in urine and serum. 1104 MacLellan et al investigated two analytical procedures (alpha spectrometry and ICP-MS) for discriminating between environmental and occupational sources of uranium, 1105 and Lewis and Schweitzer compared liquid scintillation and ICP-MS for measuring 99 Tc. 1106 In the latter study, it was found that both techniques gave accurate results, but the precision of ICP-MS was superior to liquid scintillation.…”

Improved ICP-OES analysis of trace calcium in rare-earth matrices with the use of iterative target transformation factor analysis and Kalman filter

“…High purity rare-earth materials are becoming more widely applied, and more strict specifications are being made on the content of trace elements found in such matrices. For rareearth analysis, instrumental methods, such as neutron activation analysis, 1,2 isotope-dilution mass spectrometry, 3,4 atomic absorption spectrometry, 5,6 inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), [7][8][9][10][11] and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) [12][13][14][15][16] have been applied successfully. Among these techniques, ICP-OES is now commonly available, and offers many advantages, such as simple operation, rapid analysis time, good detection limits, and a wide analytical dynamic range.…”