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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Institute of Environmental Meclicine

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ANTHONY J. LANZA RESEARCH LABORATORIES AT UNIVERSITY VALLEY
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MJATL ANO TELEPHONE ADORESS: 550 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016

June

30,

1378

Dr. Robert Conard
Senior Scientist
Medical Research Center
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, New York
11973
Dear

Bob:

On Thursday, June 22,

1978,

radiation measurements on Mr.

Mr.

.

Mr.

Island and resided there for

I performed whole body
and

is a Health Aide on Bikini

four years after the period

of testing.
He was born on
‘
, is 62.8 cm tall
and weighs 56.6 kg.
Additional anthro
opomorphic measure-

ments for head,
Laboratory.

Mr.

chest and trunk are on file at our

. lives on Majuro Atoll approximately 400

miles south of Bikini,

and was born on

is 65.6 cm tall and weighs 79.3 kg.

AIlotherbody

-

He

measurements are likewise on file at our Laboratory.

Mr. _

by Mr.
and _

and Mr.

Oscar DeBrum, Mr.

were accompanied to our Laboratory

Bill Scott and Dr.

Jan Naidu.

The first measurement performed on Messrs.
ee
utilized a 20 x 10 cm NaI(T1) detector with the

subject in-the standard "chair" position.
In this
configuration it was possible to determine the whole body

content of Cs-137 and K-40 after suitable control subjects
(i.e., men of similar height and weight) had been. subtracted.

Results for these two nuclides for each of these individuals
is given below and in Figures 1-5.
Mr.

-

Mr.

,

©€s-137

1.7240.004

uCi

K-40

= 0.13+0.01

pCi

K-40:

= 0.1240.01 .uCi

je

h In?

Cs-137 = 15.940.500 nei

*Error terms represent counting statistics only - 1 S.D.
**Values obtained by Dr. Stan Cohn for Cs-137 were 1.62 pCi for
Mr.
and 25.0 nCi for Mr.
.
These values are in
good agreement with the values measured at our Laboratory.

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