Table 4.10
Source of data
Characteristics
CHARACTERISTICS OF AVAILABLE DATA ON THE HEMA FOLOGICAL
EFFECTS OF PENETRATING RADIATION
Japanese
Hamibing sf8 47
Cliniesd
Radlothe rapy®
Luborntory
Exposed
Large
Acvident sf
Marshatlese
Autrinls 0!
Large
Numbers in Groups
Adequacy of Controts
Lieege
ate
Small
Poor
Small
Poor
Large
Good
Very in od
Serial Counts
No
You
Counting
Fir
Fate
Yes
Crowd
You
Good
Coo
Large
Lurge
Lurge
Smal
Sroall
Yeu
Yes
Yes
Internal
None
Minimal
None
contamination
Additional trauma
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Gamma, neutrons,
x rays, betas
Gamma, beta
Hard x rays,
gamma
Good
Usually no
~Sr/min
Poor
Yes
.
Instantaneous
Fair
Yes
Varying,
Goud
Usually
partial body
Total and
Total body;
Total body
Subliethal
Subicthal &
Sublethal
360° field
Sublethal &
lethal
Nurrow beam
Vartuble
lethal
Narrow beam _
Rapid fall off
Yes
‘Techniques®
Chance of bias due to
samp iog
techniques
“Normal’’
individuals
{burns etc.)
Species extrapolation
necessary
Type of radiation
Gamma,
Hard x rays,
gamma
some
to skin
neutrons
Dosage estimation
Poor
Single expasure
Dose r- te
Yes
Instantaneous
Body region
Total body
Dosage Range
Sublethal &
fethal
Nurrow beam
Modcrate fall
Geometry
Depth dose curve
Yes
~tOr/min
~6r/nr
partial body
beta to skin
Nuatrow beam
Variable rapid
Essentially
off
flat
fall off to
flat
*Same technicians for all counts; rigidly standardized techniques throughout etc.
Table 4.11 MEAN PERIPHERAL BLOOD COUNT VALUES
FOR SEVERAL CONTROL POPULATIONS (« 104
.
Source
“ee
of data
Kwaj-
upanese
Japanese Kure,
Determinatian
1947-19488
1948-19498
Total White Count
Neutrophiles
Lymphocytes
Monocytes
Hounophiles
Baxsnophiles
Platelets
3.9
5.5
2.9
0.6
0.9
$25
5.0
2.8
0.6
1.0
0.1
Americans®*"
7.4
4.4
2.5
0.3
0.2
0.0
Americans*®
7.0
4.3
2.1
0.4
0.2
0.0
250
American
Mijfuro
Controls
Controls
7.8
4.1
3.1
0.3
0.3
0.0
2:38
9.7
4.8
4.1
0.2
0.5
0.1
308
*Age 21 years
wee
teas
sepvan
aesree
.
.
tThe mean value for 50 normal young American men, using the technique employed in the present
study wus 257,000