Hematological Effects on Heavily Irradiated Japanese Fishermen 4, M. (1956): ibid. order of 350R to 400R (Tustana, M. Medical Survey of rt after 10 Years, >», Koyama, Y. and ‘es of the Nuclear 1otion of Science, ts > I would like if he has an vas the dose rmen. I ask etween your se we have a of total-body ‘idney transSs, and there e have also. lasia of the lier in our also occurs te is that the ukoevtes is es, being of kocvtes per dose of the Se a a aan nation, Se he tenmie:lin ste eer wa ere logen concent‘mal from the OE about the &b- Ce ee cases, we used h I have no played an important role in the hematological changes. The fatlout mate- tion. sources~-gamma_ irradia- This is a type of uniform irradiation. And this irradiation rial began to precipitate at 7:00 a.m. the curves of Yugoslavian accident cases, and here again we found the same difference, and our interpreta- and continued to fall for about 5 hours. Therefore, the radiation dose to fishermen was at frst small and the difference between the irradiated men began to clean up at about 12: 00, the exposure rate decreased thereafter. with a maximum variation of plus or minus 4 per cent, whereas in the case Zensho, 3, 660, ling time at the Ong as about 10 ‘ came back to -eks or so after ietic tissue, Int. At. En. Ag., Vienna (1967)). We have compared our curves with cases and the purposely irradiated patients was that in the irradiated patients the dose was very uniform, ‘ational Congress bleeding time is and in 1 or 2 deposited tion of these data was that probably nica, 18, 379, main irradiation came from externally and Latanneg, C. M., Annales de Radio- logie, 6, 561, (1963) and in Effects of Ionizing Radiation on the haematopo- “nt of Radioactive enna. 73 of accidents the uniformity was much less, and of the order of 30 per cent. Dr. Kumatoni: I agree with your opinion. In my cases, I think, the then rapidly increased. As the fisher- They wereirradiated continuously for 2 weeks with decreasing dose rates. Aside from this external irradiation, internal exposure may have had some effects. But the internal irradiation seemed to have only a slight effect on the acute hematological changes.