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  • Title: Role of scanning electron microscopy and x-ray microanalysis in the identification of urinary crystals.
    Author: Khan SR, Hackett RL.
    Journal: Scanning Microsc; 1987 Sep; 1(3):1405-11. PubMed ID: 3659871.
    Abstract:
    Urinary crystals can be identified by using analytical electron microscopic techniques of scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive x-ray microanalysis. Crystal habit can be recognised by scanning electron microscopy and their chemical nature by elemental analysis. With a conventional detector the lightest element that can routinely be detected is sodium, but with a windowless or thin window detector even carbon can be detected. Thus almost all the commonly occurring urinary crystals including uric acid can be analysed by energy dispersive x-ray microanalysis.
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