Improvement of ICP-MS measurement method for Sr in hard tissue samples

Koarai, Kazuma; Matsueda, Makoto; Aoki, Jo; Yanagisawa, Kayo*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Terashima, Motoki

KEK Proceedings 2021-2, p.140 - 145, 2021/12

Strontium-90 and Y, its daughter nuclide, adverse effects on the bone marrow. Monitoring of Sr in the bones have been required after the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. However, conventional radioactivity measurement method for Sr requires a complicated separation of Y and a time-consuming measurement. ICP-MS system has been applied to Sr concentration survey of water, soil, and edible part of fish. We developed measurement method of Sr with ICP-MS and applied the method for cattle bones. We determined Sr in the hard tissues of animals that collected in the Fukushima prefecture. Limit of detection in the measurement was 19 Bq/kg.

Online solid-phase extraction-inductively coupled plasma-quadrupole mass spectrometry with oxygen dynamic reaction for quantification of technetium-99

Matsueda, Makoto; Yanagisawa, Kayo*; Koarai, Kazuma; Terashima, Motoki; Fujiwara, Kenso; Abe, Hironobu; Kitamura, Akihiro; Takagai, Yoshitaka*

ACS Omega (Internet), 6(29), p.19281 - 19290, 2021/07

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.1c02756

Online solid-phase extraction-inductively coupled plasma-quadrupole mass spectrometry with oxygen dynamic reaction cell (online SPE-ICP-MS-DRC) was shown to be a thorough automatic analytical system, circumventing the need for human handling. At three stepwise separations (SPE-DRC-Q mass filters), we showed that interference materials allowed the coexistence of abundance ratios of 1.510 for Tc/Mo. Using this optimized system, a detection limit of Tc was 9.3 pg/L (5.9 mBq/L) for a 50 mL injection and sequential measurements were undertaken at a cycle of 24 min/sample.

Development of online dilution system for quantification of Sr using automatic solid-phase extraction inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Yanagisawa, Kayo*; Matsueda, Makoto; Furukawa, Makoto*; Takagai, Yoshitaka*

Analytical Sciences, 36(9), p.1131 - 1135, 2020/09

https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.20N009

In this paper, we propose an online water infusion system for rapid quantification of radioactive strontium-90 (Sr) with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry coupled solid-phase extraction and O dynamic reaction (cascade ICP-MS). The proposed system automatically provides a higher dilution ratio, which is at most 3.3 times the ratio obtained by the previous method, without increasing the analysis time (within 15 min). A detection limit of 2.7 Bq/kg wet (0.54 pg/kg wet) was achieved. The recovery test results were consistent with two different spiked values.

Temperature performance of portable radiation survey instruments used for environmental monitoring and clean-up activities in Fukushima

Saegusa, Jun; Yanagisawa, Kayo; Hasumi, Atsushi; Shimizu, Takenori; Uchida, Yoshiaki*

Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 137, p.210 - 215, 2017/08

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2016.02.012

Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident, large-scale radiation monitoring and environmental clean-up activities have been conducted throughout the Fukushima region. Outside air temperatures there reach 40C in summer and -20C in winter, which are beyond the quoted range of many radiation survey instruments. For the purpose, temperature performances of four types of portable Japanese survey instruments which are widely used in Fukushima were experimentally investigated with a temperature-controlled chamber.

Rapid analytical method for OBT in marine products

Kuwata, Haruka*; Hagiwara, Hiroki; Yanagisawa, Kayo; Manabe, Sachi*; Takeishi, Minoru; Watanabe, Hitoshi; Uezu, Yasuhiro

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Rapid analytical method for OBT in marine products

Kuwata, Haruka*; Hagiwara, Hiroki; Yanagisawa, Kayo*; Manabe, Sachi*; Takeishi, Minoru; Watanabe, Hitoshi; Uezu, Yasuhiro

no journal, , 

Measurement of Sr-90 in high matrix samples by ICP-MS

Fujiwara, Kenso; Yanagisawa, Kayo*; Iijima, Kazuki

no journal, , 

Since Sr-90 is one of the high yield and hazardous fission products, accurate and low-level detection of Sr-90 is essential for environmental samples. Especially, in case of nuclear power plant accidents, rapid and precise assessment of Sr-90 for environmental monitoring and health physics is required. In order to evaluate the migration of radionuclides in the environment, not only Sr-90 in water but also those in soil and biological samples should be measured. A new method for rapid quantification of Sr-90 by online solid phase extraction coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (SPE-ICP-MS) has been developed. In this method, it is unavoidable to eliminate the interference by polyatomic ion (e.g., ArCa, Ca) induced by isotopes and matrices in fishes and soil. In this study, SPE-ICP-MS method was applied to the measurement of Sr-90 in fishes, and the influence of the Sr isotopes and coexisting ions such as Ca was evaluated.

Trial of rapid measurement for Sr in animal bone by ICP-MS

Koarai, Kazuma; Matsueda, Makoto; Yanagisawa, Kayo*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Kitamura, Akihiro

no journal, , 

Strontium-90 and Y, its daughter nuclide, adverse effects on the bone marrow. Monitring of Sr have been required after the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. However, radioactivity measurement method requires a complicated separation and a time-consuming -ray measurement. ICP-MS system has been applied to Sr contamination survey of soil and water samples. We applied the ICP-MS system for the bones for the first time. In this study, reference bone was used as measurement samples. After sample preparation, Sr was determined using ICP-MS system with cascade separation steps based on on-line column separation and oxygen reaction. Strontium-90 in the bones was successfully separated from Ca, Ba, Y, Zr, Fe, and Ge, which interfered in ICP-MS measurement, in the separation steps. We found that the ICP-MS system could be applied to the rapid measurement of Sr in the bones.

Evaluation and correction of Sr-90 value in bones quantified by online solid phase ICP-MS

Matsueda, Makoto; Koarai, Kazuma; Yanagisawa, Kayo*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Kitamura, Akihiro

no journal, , 

Sr-90 accumulates in hard tissues such as bones and teeth in the case of uptake into the human or animal bodies. Therefore, the analysis of these hard tissues from the viewpoint of exposure evaluation has required, but the conventional radioactivity analysis requires a period of about one month, it is difficult to process a large number of samples. From this thing, we tried to apply application of the online solid phase extraction/ICP-MS method which can be measured quickly compared to radioactivity analysis. This method has mainly been utilizing as the analysis of Sr-90 contained in the water samples such as rainwater, and it has already equipped the correction functions corresponding to the shift of recovery rate at the Sr resin and the sensitivity shift in ICP-MS. However, hard tissues contain a large amount of matrix. Therefore, we investigated whether the isobaric interference, stable Sr, and other high matrix influence to Sr-90 values and attempted to correct the values.

Strontium-90 measurement in trace amount of hard tissues for distribution analysis

Koarai, Kazuma; Matsueda, Makoto; Aoki, Jo; Yanagisawa, Kayo*; Fujiwara, Kenso; Terashima, Motoki; Kino, Yasushi*; Oka, Toshitaka; Okutsu, Kenichi*; Yamashita, Takuma*; et al.

no journal, , 

We demonstrated a method of Sr measurement in small pieces of hard tissues with radioactivity measurement or ICP-MS measurement. Interference elements of the measurements were removed by chemical separation. We could determine Sr in 0.1 g of hard tissues by radioactivity measurement method and ICP-MS method. Limit of detection of the ICP-MS method was lower than that of the radioactivity measurement. The ICP-MS method is adequate method for distribution analysis of Sr in the hard tissues.