Proceedings Article | 2 March 2010
Yi-Yu Huang, Yi-Chun Chiu, Huihua Kenny Chiang, Y. H. Jet Chou, Shing-Hwa Lu, Allen Chiu
KEYWORDS: Raman spectroscopy, Quantitative analysis, Micro raman spectroscopy, Spectroscopy, Calibration, Binary data, Statistical analysis, Surgery, FT-IR spectroscopy, Testing and analysis
Urolithiasis is a common, disturbing disease with high recurrent rate (60% in five years). Accurate identification of
urinary stone composition is important for treatment and prevention purpose. Our previous studies have demonstrated
that micro-Raman spectroscopy (MRS)-based approach successfully detects the composition of tiny stone powders after
minimal invasive urological surgery. But quantitative analysis of urinary stones was not established yet. In this study,
human urinary stone mixed with two compositions of COM, HAP, COD, and uric acid, were analyzed quantitatively by
using a 632.98 nm Raman spectrometric system.
This quantitative analysis was based on the construction of calibration curves of known mixtures of synthetically
prepared pure COM, HAP, COD and uric acid. First, the various concentration (mole fraction) ratio of binary mixtures
including COM and HAP, COM and COD, or COM and uric acid, were produced. Second, the intensities of the
characteristic bands at 1462cm -1(IRCOM), 1477cm-1(IRCOD), 961cm-1(IRHAP) and 1402cm-1(IRuric acid), for COD, COM, HAP
and uric acid were used respectively for intensity calculation. Various binary mixtures of known concentration ratio were
recorded as the basis for the quantitative analysis. The ratios of the relative intensities of the Raman bands corresponding
to binary mixtures of known composition on the inverse of the COM concentration yielded a linear dependence. Third,
urinary stone fragments collected from patients after management were analyzed with the use of the calibration curve
and the quantitative analysis of unknown samples was made by the interpolation analysis. We successfully developed a
MRS-based quantitative analytical method for measuring two composition.