Construction of a carbon-14 bomb-pulse dating calibration curve relevant for man

Sammanfattning: Radiocarbon dating of human tissues has great potential in medical applications. A consequence of the complex path of radiocarbon to humans through diet is that the radiocarbon content of samples from human subjects is not directly comparable with the atmosphere's. By considering the harvest seasons in Sweden and its surrounding countries, a new software was developed to further investigate if the accuracy of the dating could be improved for 60 and 17 Swedish blood serum samples from 1978 and 2005-2013, respectively. A substantial increase in accuracy was obtained for the older samples but on the other hand, there was a slight decrease in accuracy for the more recently taken samples.