Application of laser ablation (LA-ICP-SF-MS) for the elemental analysis of bone and teeth samples for discrimination purposes

Teeth as Indicators of Environmental Pollution with Lead

“…The laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) technique is particularly useful for in-situ analyses of trace elements for applications requiring understanding of the spatial variation of elemental content within the sample [14,25,[45][46][47][48][49].…”

Chemical Differentiation of Osseous, Dental, and Non-skeletal Materials in Forensic Anthropology using Elemental Analysis

“…Further, in the case of DNA, this method is routinely used for individual determination of commingled remains when sorting through fragmentary material. More recently, studies suggest that elemental analysis combined with multivariate statistical analysis [3,[17][18][19] may be useful in the discrimination, or the initial sorting Science and Justice xxx (2014) xxx-xxx prior to DNA analysis, of multiple individuals when presented with highly fragmentary and taphonomically modified material.…”

Limiting the impact of destructive analytical techniques through sequential microspatial sampling of the enamel from single teeth

“…1mm Using Glitter 4.0 software, a bone meal standard reference material (NIST 1486) was analyzed with a NIST612 glass standard serving as a calibrant, and Ca 43 was used as an internal standard (Simonetti et al 2008;Castro et al 2010;Hare et al 2011). The spot ablations removed such extremely small samples (difficult to see with the naked eye) from the tooth crown that "Block A" was retained for future analyses of the remaining dental tissues.…”