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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: Biometals. 2014 Dec 24;28(1):187–196. doi: 10.1007/s10534-014-9814-8

Table 2.

Method Limits of Detection and Quantification for Mn, Fe, Cu, and Zn

Limit (μg/g)
BM M SV S GP IC HB
Mn mLOD 11.5 59.6 13.6 49.4 65.5 67.2 26.7
mLOQ 38.3 199 45.3 165 218 224 89.0
Fe mLOD 1.15×103 7.51×103 9.07×102 5.41×103 2.11×103 2.95×103 1.93×103
mLOQ 3.83×103 2.50×104 3.02×103 1.80×104 7.02×103 9.69×103 6.43×103
Cu mLOD 28.0 101 32.0 292 195 684 298
mLOQ 93.4 337 107 974 649 2.28×103 992
Zn mLOD 1.06×103 4.77×103 1.34×103 2.17×103 1.99×103 3.10×103 1.51×103
mLOQ 3.52×103 1.59×104 4.46×103 7.24×103 6.63×103 1.03×104 5.03×103

The HB limits were applied to the CN and HP tissues.