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strontium and that gives an infinitive dose of less than one
breadth.
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It has been discussed in the sense of

extremely small inasmuch as the total activity is probably
much less than tolerance when you

think of thet over a long

period of time. That is the catch here,

I think, and if you

X-ray a bone, you are going to give more of a dose probably
in the course of the examimtion than the internally deposited

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difficult to arrange a series dexaminatims to allow for

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that factor.

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Sir, in regard to the x-rays according

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to the Brookhaven group,60 to 70 per cent of the radiation

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will be expended in the first three centimeters, and 8 pz cent

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So the radiatim of te bone wuld be very small.
Another thing I would like to emphasize here is

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the marked variation that we found in the radium patients wheh

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estimating body burden from urinary excretim.

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factor of eight.

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expect a much greater range from the estimatim

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This was long range.

We found a

I would certain

of the total

body burden from urinary excretion.
One of the things is that we can work out the most

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practical and sensible means of handling situations of this

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