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CDR. CRONKITE:

It was located on the scalp, where

they lost their hair.
MR. HARRIS:

I was interested in this 700 r.

That is how much of what energy at what?
CDR. CONARD:
DR. BOND:

That is medium hard x-ray.

That is another thing; what is the

depilation dose?

MR. HARRIS:

How about the children that they

depilate all the time for fungus infection.

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that?

DR. BOND:

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Yes, with divided doses.
Two to three hundred r usually.
That is measured inhair.

You could

have a relatively small soft x-ray or gamma dose in the
hair follicles, whereas you gould have a terrific high skin

dose so far as REPs of beta rays are concerned.

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BOND:

We had a conference with radiologists

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and this question was asked:

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and the estimate computed ranged from 300 to 1200 r.

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You ordinarily use a soft x-ray.

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How much is

CDR. CRONKITE:

What is the depilation dose,

There is one point which I think

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Dr. Bond deliberately left out, and all of us wanted to,

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but has to be considered to a certain extent, and that is,

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how serious are the hematologic changes as observed here?
I

think it is my personal opinion that these people were

on the borderline of
as

getting into serious trouble,

far as platelets are concerned.

particular

I don't think we can

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