The increase in ionizing radiation (IR) applications can expose people and objects to radiation fields, where the intensity depends on the type of source and the activity. In this work, scattering profiles of lyophilized samples of plasma, cellular matrix and total blood were studied. The scattering profiles were obtained using a Shiamadzu X-Ray diffractometer (XRD 6000) at the Laboratório de Instrumentação Nuclear, LIN/Coppe. The samples were irradiated with doses of from 2cGy to 100cGy at Inca in Rio de Janeiro and all the samples of plasma, cellular matrix and total blood were lyophilized at -60°C and 780 mmHg until the water was totally eliminated. Scanning involved scattering angles of from 5° to 35° in steps of 0.05° with an integration time of 3 seconds. The scattering profiles of the irradiated samples were compared with non-irradiated sample profiles. In this study it was observed that the cellular matrix and total blood sample profiles are similar. The scattering profile of plasma is very characteristic because in addition to the first and second peaks, these samples show two other narrow peaks. The 1 and 2 values of irradiated plasma samples are greater than non-irradiated ones and the 1 and 2 values of the irradiated cellular matrix samples are smaller than ones obtained using non-irradiated cellular matrix samples.
Blood; X-ray diffraction
