Imaging and Microanalysis of Kidney Stones by Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy of Al Jawf Region in Saudi Arabia: In Conjunction with X-ray Diffraction (XRD) Study

Whitlockite structures in kidney stones indicate infectious origin: a scanning electron microscopy and Synchrotron Radiation investigation

“…Iron in Wk may modify the position of IR absorption bands and thus may confuse the analysis of IR spectra. Then, we address the size of Wk nanocrystals for an initial set of infection-related kidney stones containing more than 20% Wk in weight, using SR-wide angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) [47][48][49][50][51][52]. We use the definition of the terms "nanocrystals" and "crystallites" of Van Meerssche and Feneau-Dupont, i.e.…”