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Assessment of Body Content of Radioactive Strontium following Contamination in Adult Men

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ASSESSMENT of the body content of humans following an accident with radioactive strontium, particularly with strontium-89 or strontium-90, is one of vital concern. Even if equipment for body radioactivity measurement is available, its relatively low sensitivity for these isotopes makes it important to have other rapid and reliable means of estimating the body content. One of us1 presented a simple relationship between the cumulative urinary excretion of radioactive strontium over 21 days, Σ210U, and the injected dose R0:

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    G. E. HARRISON

  2. Health Physics and Medical Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Berkshire

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HARRISON, G., RUNDO, J. Assessment of Body Content of Radioactive Strontium following Contamination in Adult Men. Nature 211, 774–775 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211774b0

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