Al-Hamzawi Anees A, Jaafar M S, Tawfiq Nada F
School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia ; Department of Physics, College of Education, Al-Qadisiyah University, Qadisiyah, Iraq.
School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia.
J Radioanal Nucl Chem. 2014;299(3):1267-1272. doi: 10.1007/s10967-013-2808-0. Epub 2013 Nov 5.
The simple and effective technique of fission track etch has been applied to determine trace concentration of uranium in human blood samples taken from two groups of male and female participants: leukemia patients and healthy subjects group. The blood samples of leukemia patients and healthy subjects were collected from three key southern governorates namely, Basrah, Muthanna and Dhi-Qar. These governorates were the centers of intensive military activities during the 1991 and 2003 Gulf wars, and the discarded weapons are still lying around in these regions. CR-39 track detector was used for registration of induced fission tracks. The results show that the highest recorded uranium concentration in the blood samples of leukemia patients was 4.71 ppb (female, 45 years old, from Basrah) and the minimum concentration was 1.91 ppb (male, 3 years old, from Muthanna). For healthy group, the maximum uranium concentration was 2.15 ppb (female, 55 years old, from Basrah) and the minimum concentration was 0.86 ppb (male, 5 years old, from Dhi-Qar). It has been found that the uranium concentrations in human blood samples of leukemia patients are higher than those of the healthy group. These uranium concentrations in the leukemia patients group were significantly different ( < 0.001) from those in the healthy group.
裂变径迹蚀刻这种简单有效的技术已被应用于测定从两组男性和女性参与者（白血病患者和健康受试者组）采集的人体血液样本中的痕量铀浓度。白血病患者和健康受试者的血液样本采集自伊拉克南部的三个主要省份，即巴士拉、穆萨纳和济加尔。这些省份是1991年和2003年海湾战争期间军事活动密集的中心，废弃武器仍散落在这些地区。使用CR - 39径迹探测器记录诱发裂变径迹。结果表明，白血病患者血液样本中记录到的最高铀浓度为4.71 ppb（女性，45岁，来自巴士拉），最低浓度为1.91 ppb（男性，3岁，来自穆萨纳）。对于健康组，最高铀浓度为2.15 ppb（女性，55岁，来自巴士拉），最低浓度为0.86 ppb（男性，5岁，来自济加尔）。已发现白血病患者人体血液样本中的铀浓度高于健康组。白血病患者组的这些铀浓度与健康组的铀浓度有显著差异（<0.001）。
