The localisation of biologically important metals in soft and calcified tissues using a synchrotron x‐ray fluorescence technique

Abstract A microbeam synchrotron x‐ray fluorescence (µ‐SXRF) technique has been employed in investigating the localisation of metals in two biological systems, soft and calcified tissue. Breast carcinoma is the focus of the former investigations, and osteoarthritis, that of the latter. Copper has been the metal of particular interest in breast tissue work, although 2D maps of other elements of importance have also been produced in present …