Hematological Effects on Heavily Irradiated Japanese Fishermen
4, M. (1956): ibid.
order of 350R to 400R (Tustana, M.
Medical Survey of
rt after 10 Years,
>», Koyama, Y. and
‘es of the Nuclear
1otion of Science,
ts
> I would like
if he has an
vas the dose
rmen.
I ask
etween
your
se we have a
of total-body
‘idney transSs, and there
e have also.
lasia of the
lier in our
also occurs
te is that the
ukoevtes is
es, being of
kocvtes per
dose of the
Se a a aan
nation,
Se he tenmie:lin ste eer wa ere
logen concent‘mal from the
OE
about the &b-
Ce ee
cases, we used
h I have no
played an important role in the hematological changes. The fatlout mate-
tion.
sources~-gamma_
irradia-
This is a type of uniform
irradiation.
And
this
irradiation
rial began to precipitate at 7:00 a.m.
the curves of Yugoslavian accident
cases, and here again we found the
same difference, and our interpreta-
and continued to fall for about 5
hours. Therefore, the radiation dose
to fishermen was at frst small and
the difference between the irradiated
men began to clean up at about 12: 00,
the exposure rate decreased thereafter.
with a maximum variation of plus or
minus 4 per cent, whereas in the case
Zensho, 3, 660,
ling time at the
Ong as about 10
‘ came back to
-eks or so after
ietic tissue, Int. At. En. Ag., Vienna
(1967)).
We have compared our curves with
cases and the purposely irradiated
patients was that in the irradiated
patients the dose was very uniform,
‘ational Congress
bleeding time is
and in 1 or 2
deposited
tion of these data was that probably
nica, 18, 379,
main irradiation came from externally
and Latanneg, C. M., Annales de Radio-
logie, 6, 561, (1963) and in Effects of
Ionizing Radiation on the haematopo-
“nt of Radioactive
enna.
73
of accidents the uniformity was much
less, and of the order of 30 per cent.
Dr. Kumatoni: I agree with your
opinion. In my cases, I think, the
then rapidly increased.
As the fisher-
They wereirradiated continuously for
2 weeks with decreasing dose rates.
Aside from this external irradiation,
internal exposure may have had some
effects.
But the internal irradiation
seemed to have only a slight effect
on the acute hematological changes.