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College of Medicine Rad i ob i o1ogy La bo ra t o ry The Uni vers i ty of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Richhnd, Washington USA. 99352 I have the following brief observations on your draft o f the November 7-8, 1 979, USTR Advisory Comni t t e e Meeti ng . I, too, believe that we had a more effective meeting than usual. I agree closely enough w i t h your observations. Observation 7 is unusual and gracious, and I like it. Concerning Recomendation 8, your memo confirms that I , as a physicist, should not be one of those most dogmatic i n choice of bone; u n t i l receiving your note I had believed that leg bones comprised femur, tibia,fibula, and foot-ankle bones. I see that your Reference Man has transposition between ulna and fibula. I supported the choice of femur "napkin r i n g " for two reasons: 1. In meetings before you assumed the chair, the matter was considered extensively and apparently agreed to by such qualified pathologists work with radium, and that its applicability t o the transuranics may be less. I realize that the concept came from Dr. Evans' 2. I interpreted the objections as coming more from the morticians than the pathologists--the "broken broomstick" syndrome, i f you will. I consider the best possible autopsy t o be necessary, and consider i t mechanical ly el ementary t o design ,bui 1d , and supply an expanding metal piece that would stabilize the "napkined" 1 imb. I had not weighed the embalming problems t h a t our present pathologists now bring up. wi t h autopsy problems. I would abide by a majority decision of members familiar l o b 3 4 1 8 50 Years of Service
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Ideally, i f enough femur rings and clavicles could be compared we could make a judgment that clavicle is acceptable or not for routine purposes. Perhaps experience w i t h a few willed bodies could achieve In Recommendation 3, i t would be more appealing t o have the freezer large enough to hold several bodies, rather than individuals. There is one recomnendation that I thought I had made which is not represented. That is that the analysis of cremains could give alot of information f o r checking health physics predictions and the like a t very much less cost than the willed body full analysis. T h i s approach would especially answer whether heavy depositions are sl ipping through . You will recall that we learned that ordinary cremains are rarely point." Special laboratory incinerators would be needed. I have i n mind here that many individuals and their families m i g h t accept cremation whereas they could have an unfavorable reaction to a comprehensive d i s -