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THE HUMAN SPECTROMETER
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Introduction ~C.E. Miller
During the past six months, the HumanSpectrometer has been devoted largely to the study of certain features of Cs!9" fallout and its uptake
by humans. Thus, the gamma-ray body activities of 11 subjects from Cen.
tral and South America and of 7 Marshallese have been measured and the
trend of cesium burden of our control subjects has been brought up to date
In addition, extensive measurements have been made of the Cs!37 contents
of filter papers collected from an air monitoring program dating back to
1953.
The radium body burdens of two former dial painters have been de termined. Studies of the relationship between total and exchangeable K in
humans have been started. The gamma-ray spectrum emitted by the liver
of a Tridacna clam collected in the Bikini lagoon is given.
The low-energy, gamma-ray background of the Iron Room hasbee:
reduced by about 20 per cent with the | addition of 1/8 in. of lead to the floo
and one wall.
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(1) The January, 1956, point on the CEM curve has been dropped
The data had been determined using a 4-in. by 4-in. Nal(T1) crystal on
loan from the Harshaw Chemical Company through the courtesy of
E. C. Stewart. This point hadbeen incorrectly plotted since the crystal
efficiency factor for the standard 4-in. by 14 in. crystal was used.
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The build-up of Cs/97 as a function of time in four control subjects
was reported in graphical form in the preceding Semiannual Report. (1)