Strontium depth distribution in human bone measured by micro‐PIXE

Abstract Strontium is naturally present in human bone, where it may exert beneficial or detrimental health effects depending on its concentration. The way strontium influences bone health and the concentrations at which the beneficial/detrimental health effects of strontium become important are still unknown, due partly to the difficulty of assessing the bone strontium concentration in vivo non‐invasively. An x‐ray fluorescence (XRF) system …