BIO-PIXE AND BIO-SXRF

Application of PiXE On biology, medicine and environment has been successful in the last twenty years. However, with the development of science and technique, lower detectable limit, sub-ppm sensitivity, more accurate quantitative analysis and the element chemical state information were presented which can not be achieved by PIXE. The synchrotron radiation as an excitation source to induce X-ray emission (SXRF) is a very powerful method with all the above requirements. In this paper the advantages of SXRF were discussed and compared with PIXE. The article shows our work on biological field by PIXE and SXRF also.