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MONTHLY HIGHLIGHT REPORT 7 I5940 OFFICE OF TAE EXECUTNE DIRECTOR A meeting was held on June 6 between staff members of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and ORINS t o discuss plans f o r participation by southern universities i n c high-energy physics program. The resdts of t h i s meeting have already been reported verbally, a,nd have been quent items i n this report referring t o a bubble-chamber project are an outgrowth of It. A subcatnmittee of the ORINS Council’s University Relations Committee met at Virginia Polytechnic Institute on June 24 t o frame revised criteria for admission of new institutions a6 members of the ORINS corporation. This restatement of guidelines f o r admission will be presented t o the Council at its annual business meeting i n October. President Frank G. Dickey of the University of Kentucky visited institutions of ORINS. Iie was Rccunpmied on his tours of ORINS and ORNL by Wendell DeMarcus of the University’s Physics Depwbent, who represents President Dickey on the ORINS Council. The University of Kentucky is one of the sponsoring V. F’aul Kenney of the University of Kentucky represented ORINS a t a meeting on June 28 a t Argonne National Laboratory of those interested i n bubble chambers t o be built at Argonne. of the conference was t o consider safety factors i n connection w3th The forty-ninth meeting of the ORINS Board of Directors was held a t ORINS headquarters on June 25. t o the Institute ’ s prime contract with AEC providing for overhead and space allowances for FY 1961; budgets were appr md for the next fiscal year for grants received from the National Science FoundEltfon; fellowship program items included minor revision of terms of appointment for the advanced health physics and Oak Ridge graduate fellawships, the receipt of the executive director’s annual report on all fellmship’ appointments and renewals, and two appointments t o the Industrial Hygiene Fellowship Board (Varren A. Cook, professor aad research associate at the Institute of Industrial Beslth, University of Michiga, as the m ivers it y representative, and William G. HRZ ~of the Industrial Relations Division of Owens-Illinois of Toledo &B the industry Action was taken on modifications
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A group of patients has been given calcium-47, sad detailed studies have been made on i t s fate and distribution. fecal excretion have beenmeasured, and external cgunts and sca.ns have isotope does not usually concentrate enough t o produce a striking increase i n external counts mer the lesion. calcium-47 makes external counting difficult because of the collimation recalcifying lesion fran carcinana of the breast, and mer an extensive primary bone lesion of a type as yet uncertain. have been cmpired with sane obtained i n previous years with calcium-45. Bload levels, urinary and I n patients with bone lesions of osteolytic type, the The high energy of the Significantly elevated external counts were fcrund Over one The second model of the whole-body counter i s ccmpleted, incorporating a redesign of the bed mechanism, and a decrease i n the middle Inner-cave system. This is now being prepared fora redesign into the third m o d e l , wherein the middle roan of the cave system can be further reduced and the head of the bed can be -her cut down. mechanism f o r the crystals i n the crystal counter device must be shaped by about 45 degrees; however, this depends upon the placement of crystals, which i s not yet decided upon. cave m u s t be revbed to take counting systems. The hold iw The wall closing the middle An oxygen polarograph, t o measure oxygen content i n tissues, is being once again redesigned t o improve its stability and reproducibil it y. Chaages are being made t o decrease its external resistance to allow for faster readings and better linearity for different A mock-ioc?:ne M t containing eources of varying activity has been prepared and placed on contract loan to Wane University for further testing of a method f o r calibrating thyroid-uptake instrument set-Ups. The method makes it possible t o establish conversion factors f o r relating normals at one institution to that at others. A new method of stool collection designed for use in the tracer estbu3tion of dose t o the hman intestinal tract resulting fX tn oral ingestion of rs dice c tld ty appears to work quite satisfactorfly; measurements with lanthsnum-140 will be resumed. A review and collection of’ reported data on effects of lethalrange total-body irradiation i n human beings has been prepared. Aside fram the study on t h e Japanese victims, only four autopsies h8ve been reported foLL&g radiation accidents. A total of about 20 autopsies has been recorded on pti ents who bve been given high doses of to-- body irradiation i n attempts t o control a malignant process, usually Work has continued on the nature of the naetabolic abnormality that occurs in bone-marrow chimeras suffering fran secondary disease. changes were previously found in the glutamine and glutathione concent ration in the Uvers of mice 12 days after irradiation and transplantation of bone marrow. The can unds decreased i n liver of both