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Takahatake, Yoko; Watanabe, So; Arai, Tsuyoshi*; Sato, Takahiro*; Shibata, Atsuhiro
Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 196, p.110783_1 - 110783_5, 2023/06
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.01(Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear)Arai, Yoichi; Watanabe, So; Ono, Shimpei; Nomura, Kazunori; Nakamura, Fumiya*; Arai, Tsuyoshi*; Seko, Noriaki*; Hoshina, Hiroyuki*; Hagura, Naoto*; Kubota, Toshio*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 477, p.54 - 59, 2020/08
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：45.45(Instruments & Instrumentation)Arai, Yoichi; Watanabe, So; Ono, Shimpei; Nomura, Kazunori; Nakamura, Fumiya*; Arai, Tsuyoshi*; Seko, Noriaki*; Hoshina, Hiroyuki*; Kubota, Toshio*
QST-M-23; QST Takasaki Annual Report 2018, P. 59, 2020/03
Abe, Ryoji*; Nagoshi, Kohei*; Arai, Tsuyoshi*; Watanabe, So; Sano, Yuichi; Matsuura, Haruaki*; Takagi, Hideaki*; Shimizu, Nobutaka*; Koka, Masashi*; Sato, Takahiro*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 404, p.173 - 178, 2017/08
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：44.54(Instruments & Instrumentation)Sato, Takahiro; Yokoyama, Akihito; Kitamura, Akane; Okubo, Takeru; Ishii, Yasuyuki; Takahatake, Yoko; Watanabe, So; Koma, Yoshikazu; Kada, Wataru*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 371, p.419 - 423, 2016/03
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：55.03(Instruments & Instrumentation)Sato, Takahiro; Sakai, Takuro; Oikawa, Masakazu*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 249(1-2), p.234 - 237, 2006/08
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：47.51(Instruments & Instrumentation)The purpose of this study is to correct yields of characteristic X-ray in micro-PIXE analysis by using STIM and computer simulation. To compensate the reduction of X-ray yields, thickness and internal constitution of a sample must be taken accurately with spatial resolution of a few microns. Therefore, we use STIM to investigate them. Furthermore, we developed a computer software code to correct the X-ray yields. To confirm validity of our method, ion exchange resins, which are similar to biological cells in size, were used as a test sample. There were some wrong distributions of sodium in micro-PIXE analysis of ion exchange resins. But, they could be corrected to some extent by using our code.
Sato, Takahiro; Sakai, Takuro; Oikawa, Masakazu*
JAEA-Review 2005-001, TIARA Annual Report 2004, p.304 - 306, 2006/01
The purpose of this study is to correct yields of characteristic X-ray in micro-PIXE analysis by using STIM and computer simulation. To compensate the reduction of X-ray yields, thickness of a sample must be taken accurately with spatial resolution of a few microns but it is difficult to measure them by micro-PIXE analysis. Therefore, we use STIM to investigate them. Furthermore, we developed a computer simulation code to correct the X-ray yields. To confirm validity of our code, ion exchange resins, which are similar to biological cells in size, were used as a test sample. There were some wrong distributions of sodium in micro-PIXE analysis of ion exchange resins. But, they could be corrected to some extent by using our code.
Kasahara, Mikio*; Ma, C.-J.*; Okumura, Motonori*; Kojima, Takuji; Hakoda, Teruyuki; Taguchi, Mitsumasa; Sakai, Takuro; Ohara, Yoshihiro
JAEA-Review 2005-001, TIARA Annual Report 2004, p.293 - 295, 2006/01
Artificial cloud generation experiment was performed using a huge vertical pit located in Kamaishi iron-copper mine to investigate the characteristics of cloud. The physical and chemical properties of individual cloud droplets were examined by microscopic analysis at Kyoto university and micro-PIXE analysis at TIARA. The process of growth of cloud was clarified based on the result on droplet size, its distribution, droplet number concentration, and the change in distribution of chlorine in droplet as the function of size.
Sato, Takahiro; Sakai, Takuro; Oikawa, Masakazu*
JAEA-Review 2005-001, TIARA Annual Report 2004, p.304 - 306, 2006/01
The purpose of this study is to correct yields of characteristic X-ray in micro-PIXE analysis by using STIM and computer simulation. To compensate the reduction of X-ray yields, thickness of a sample must be taken accurately with spatial resolution of a few microns but it is difficult to measure them by micro-PIXE analysis. Therefore, we use STIM to investigate them. Furthermore, we developed a computer simulation code to correct the X-ray yields. To confirm validity of our code, ion exchange resins, which are similar to biological cells in size, were used as a test sample. There were some wrong distributions of sodium in micro-PIXE analysis of ion exchange resins. But, they could be corrected to some extent by using our code.
Kozai, Naofumi; Mitamura, Hisayoshi; Onuki, Toshihiko; Sakai, Takuro; Sato, Takahiro; Oikawa, Masakazu*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 231(1-4), p.530 - 535, 2005/04
Times Cited Count：9 Percentile：55.97(Instruments & Instrumentation)Applicability of micro-PIXE analysis to quantitative evaluation of heavy elements sorbed on minerals was investigated to get better understanding of sorption and distribution of heavy elements onto mixture of minerals in soil. For this, external standards, that is, heavy element-sorbing minerals of uniform shape and size, were analyzed by micro-PIXE. It was found that such external standards were available to quantitative evaluation by micro-PIXE though their applicability may be limited.
Kasahara, Mikio*; Ma, C.-J.*; Okumura, Motonori*; Kojima, Takuji; Hakoda, Teruyuki; Taguchi, Mitsumasa; Sakai, Takuro; Ohara, Yoshihiro
JAERI-Review 2004-025, TIARA Annual Report 2003, p.256 - 258, 2004/11
As the source of Asian dust particles, the sands at four different desert areas in China were to be the target of bulk and single analyses by means of PIXE and micro-PIXE analyses, respectively. The physical properties of desert sands like morphology, color, and size were basically determined. Also the chemical characteristics of bulk sands of each desert were specified as the relative elemental mass. The elemental maps and spectra for individual sands allow us to understand the nature of individual sands. Consequently, the physicochemical properties of desert sands obtained from this study can be helpful to understand what kinds of man-made pollutants and sea-salts are incorporated into natural Asian dust particles.
Kasahara, Mikio*; Ma, C.-J.*; Okumura, Motonori*; Kojima, Takuji; Hakoda, Teruyuki; Sakai, Takuro; Arakawa, Kazuo
JAERI-Review 2003-033, TIARA Annual Report 2002, p.270 - 272, 2003/11
A snow crystal scavenges earozol particles and trasfer various elements in atomosphere through heterogenious nucleation. The snow has many complicated crystal shapes which results in difficulty in comparison of its environmental purification function directly with that of raindrops. The replica of individual snow crystal grain was prepared by their immobilization on the collodion film. The replica samples were analized by micro-PIXE at JAERI and PIXE st Kyoto university. The following results are obtained: (1) Size(circumscribed diameter) of individual snow crystal are in the range of 0.12-2.5mm, (2)snow crystal grows from hexagnal plate to dendritic sectored plate, (3) major elements captured by a snow crystal are Si,S,K,Ca,Fe,S, (4)there is relation between snow crystal size and captured-element masses. The result leads us to presume the chemical inner-structure and the elemental mixing state in/on single snow crystal.
Kozai, Naofumi; Onuki, Toshihiko; Komarneni, S.*; Kamiya, Tomihiro; Sakai, Takuro; Oikawa, Masakazu*; Sato, Takahiro
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 210, p.513 - 518, 2003/09
Times Cited Count：8 Percentile：50.24(Instruments & Instrumentation)This study examined removal of cadmium from solution by two materials with high sorptivity for cadmium: a synthetic mica named Na-4 mica and an apatite. At an initial Cd concentration of 1
10
M and a starting pH of 3, the distribution coefficient of Na-4 mica for Cd (8.410
ml/g) was one order of mgnitude of higher than that of apatite (8.210
ml/g). On the other thand, micro-PIXE anaysis for a mixture of equal mass of Na-4 mica and apatite contacted with Cd solution under the same conditions revealed that Cd was selectively taken up by the apatite in the mixture, while Cd was not detected on the Na-4 mica in the mixture. This result by micro-PIXE analysis is not what is expected from the above distribution coefficient values of Na-4 mica and apatite. This result can be explained by irreversibility of the uptake and the difference in kinetics of the uptake by the Na-4 mica and apatite.
Harada, Satoshi*; Tamakawa, Yoshiharu*; Ishii, Keizo*; Tanaka, Akira*; Sato, Takahiro; Matsuyama, Shigeo*; Yamazaki, Hiromichi*; Kamiya, Tomihiro; Sakai, Takuro; Arakawa, Kazuo; et al.
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 189(1-4), p.437 - 442, 2002/04
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：12.5(Instruments & Instrumentation)To study the interactions between the induction of radiation-induced apoptosis and trace elements kinetics, human leukemia cells were irradiated in vitro by 
Co 
rays, after which the cells were evaluated for the detection of apoptosis and trace element imaging was carried out. The frequency of apoptosis was obtained by microscopic assay using TUNEL staining. The trace element distribution in the cell was determined by micro-PIXE. In the early phase of apoptosis, the maximum level of Fe accumulation was observed in the cell stroma. In the mid to end phase, Fe accumulation was diminished, and instead, Ca accumulation increased and Zn decreased in the nucleus. There appear to be two steps for the development of apoptosis: (1) the signaling from cell stroma to nucleus by Fe or an Fe-containing enzyme; and (2) the degeneration of the nucleus by Ca-dependent enzyme, and release of Zn from digested nucleus. Those strong accumulations may be new markers for apoptosis.
Kozai, Naofumi; Onuki, Toshihiko; Koka, Masashi; Sato, Takahiro; Kamiya, Tomihiro; Esaka, Fumitaka
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To reveal the role of protozoa in migration of radionuclides in the environment, this study investigated behavior of U(VI) during culture of Paramecium sp. (P. bursaria) in media containing yeast on which U was sorbed. Paramecium was chosen as model protozoa because it is the most well known unicellular protozoa. After the contact of yeast cells with a U (VI) solution, U phosphates formed on yeast cells. P. bursaria cells were cultured with those yeast cells in an inorganic salt solution containing no phosphate. Only 3% of the presorbed U was dissolved from yeast cells into the liquid phases during the culture of Paramecium. As culture time advances, membranous precipitates formed. These membranous precipitates contained undigested and digested yeast cells and dense membranous organic substance filling gaps between those cells. In the membranous precipitates many particles of U phosphates which size and morphology are similar to those observed in the yeast cells were observed. These results suggest that the U immobilization effect of yeast cells was preserved in the prey-predator system
