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Per your telephone request, ne are enclosing a nulnber o f photographs, nl t h captions depicting the use o f radlolsotopes I n aradiclne and agriculture. The photograph you requested rh lng a radlatlon film badge used by workers I n a nuclear laboratory Is belng sent to you separately by the Publlc Relations Offlce of Oak Ridge liational l e t us know i f we can be of addltlonal help. Publlc Information Officer
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Radioisotopes are routinely used in the medical profession for the diagnosis and treatment o f disease. Ridge Associated Universities i n Oak Ridge, Tennessee, has a number o f scanning devices which chart the uptake of low-level radioactivity i n patients in a diagnostic procedure. The scanner, which contains a sensitive radiation detection system, passes slowly over the patient charting the uptake of the radioactivity i n the patient ' s body and providing physicians with data on which to make diagnostic determinations. Work of the Medical Division i s supported by the Energy Research and Development Administration. The Medical Division of Oak laboratory (CARL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, i n an attempt t o better understand the mechanisms o f radiation and chemical mutagenesis . Some radiation-stimulated mutatuion in agriculturally important plants result i n such attributes as earlier development, disease resistance and improved sources (shown i n the background) which are loaded witha radioisotope known as cobalt 60. 0R0-68-613-11 In this CARL facility, plants can be position near radiaiton
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Sheep are one o f several species of animals used in a research program, involving the use of radiation, conducted a t the Comparative Animal Research Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. operates the facility for the Energy Research and Development Administration. Emphasis in the animal research program centers on the uptake, subsequent distribution and excretion o f radionuclides which could pose a potential are hopeful of achieving more rational and accurate predicition o f the risk o f radiaition exposure t o man. The University o f Tennessee By comparing exposure data among animal species, researchers
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A technician operates a scanning device, located a t Oak Ridge Associated Universities' Medical Division, used t o plot the uptake of low-level radiaition in organs of the body. the body recording radiaitjon uptake i n the body. probe reads is printed at right. t o diagnose the possible existence o f disease. The sensitive probe at left moves over A graph of what the By reading the graph physicians are able Radioisotopes such as cobalt 60 and cesium 137 are used i n teletherapy devices for the treatment o f disease. This unit, located a t the Puerto Rico Nuclear Center a t San Juan, i s used ina cancer treatment program. The Puerto Rico Nuclear Center, which conducts programs o f research and training for the Energy Research and Development Administration, is . - operated by the University o f Puerto Rico. 0R0-72-264-3