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The US Transuranium and Uranium Registries (USTUR) studies the distribution, biokinetics and tissue dosimetry of actinide elements through radiochemical analysis of autopsy tissues voluntarily donated by occupationally exposed persons. The paper provides an overview of the analytical methods for plutonium (Pu), americium (Am) and uranium (U) isotopic determination in human tissues currently applied at USTUR. The results of inter-comparing  239+240 Pu,  241 Am and  234,235,238 U determinations by sector field inductively coupled mass spectrometry (SF-ICP-MS),  α -spectrometry (AS) and kinetic phosphorescence analysis (KPA) are discussed. SF-ICP-MS is a major advance over AS and KPA in enabling the measurement of the  240 Pu/  239 Pu atom ratio, the short-lived  β -emitter  241 Pu, and long-lived  236 U. For the first time,  241 Am and  241 Pu were measured in human tissues using SF-ICP-MS. The paper also presents a new avenue of USTUR research in the application of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to elemental bio-imaging (EBI) of the actinides in human tissues.

The US Transuranium and Uranium Registries: forty years' experience and new directions in the analysis of actinides in human tissues