title: A comparison of two methods for the determination of thallium in urine. Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry and flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
abstract: Two analytical procedures for the determination of thallium in urine are evaluated and compared. The two methods consist of differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry and flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Both procedures correlated well and were found to be acceptable in terms of precision and analytical recovery. However, a solvent extraction step proved to be necessary for the AAS procedure, and the linearity with respect to the concentration range was rather limited. The method based on DPASV is simple, accurate, precise, and sensitive and does not require any pretreatment of the sample. We therefore recommend the voltammetric procedure for the determination of thallium in urine, as described in this paper.
mesh_terms: D004563:Electrochemistry; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic / Q000379:methods; D013793:Thallium / Q000652:urine*
chemical_list: D013793:Thallium