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Science 28 February 1964:
Vol. 143. no. 3609, pp. 957 - 959
DOI: 10.1126/science.143.3609.957
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Detection and Quantitation of Fallout Particles in a Human Lung

Audrey V. Wegst 1, Charles A. Pelletier 1, and G. Hoyt Whipple 1

1 School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Portions of an adult human lung were studied by autoradiography in order to detect the presence of fallout particles. The radioactivity in the remainder of the tissue was determined with a gamma-ray spectrometer. Four particles were found and their activities were determined. From the measurement for total-fission-product activity in the lung tissue it was calculated that there were approximately 264 particles in the right lung at the time of death.

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