APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE USING THE NEW LUND MICROPROBE

Using the Lund nuclear microprobe, application to medical research has been performed. It is known that people suffering from psoriasis have a skin composition that in some parts differs from normal skin. Using the microprobe, trace element profiles of the outer parts of the skin were obtained. From the results, e.g. the Fe distribution was found t o be anomalous. In another study, calcification of arteries from patie nts affected by different degrees of atherosclerosis were compared wit h corresponding samples from normal individuals. Apart from Ca, which locally occurred in ''granules'', the distributions of minor and trace elements were found to be different in the case of atherosclerosis.