Estudo da aplicação da técnica de ED-XRF para caracterização elementar de tecidos mamários

Abstract

Breast cancer can reach around 57.120 new cases in Brazil in 2014, according the service of epidemiology in the National Cancer Institute. Researchers have been associated mammary neoplasm with changes of elements concentrations such as: calcium, iron, copper and zinc. In this way the technique of X-Ray Fluorescence appears like a tool to characterize this kind of neoplasm. The effectiveness of this technique is strongly dependent of X-ray spectrum incident on the sample as well as the calibration procedure of the measuring system. In present work, were evaluated the influence of aluminum filters on the measurement efficiency of the concentrations of the elements changed in mammary neoplasm and to evaluate the minimum concentrations that the equipment of the Laboratory of Applied Nuclear Physics at Federal University of Technology – Paraná is capable to register. The equipment under study was the Amptek kit of X-ray tube Mini-X and detector X-123SDD. The results obtained shown a simultaneous analysis, in that Al filters with thicknesses of 0.25 mm provides the best efficiency. Besides, it was verified that specifics calibration curves for each element was required, and it were obtained with five biological standards of International Atomic Energy Agency. The results made possible to compare the concentration of biological standards certificates with the equation obtained, in addition to analyze quantitatively two sample of breast tissue.