Radiation Injury and Recovery in Swine

Journal Article · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1959 · Radiation Research

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2307/3570681· OSTI ID:4213092

Trum, Bernard F.; Shively, James N.; Kuhn, U. S. G.; Carll, Walter T.

Swine exposed to an initial dose of ionizing radiation were allowed 90 days of recuperation and then subjected to 50 r of gamma -radiation daily until death. The hogs lived from 83 to 385 days. The mean survival times of the group were related to the size of the initial irradiation. Residual or irreparable damage at 90 days postirradiation measured in terms of survival to daily irradiation was not a constant per cent of initial dose. The dose at midcenter of the hog, calculated from measurements made within a hog carcass or a water- filled Lucite phantom, would have varied between 35 and 70% of the measured air dose, depending on the size of the hog and its position in the radiation field. One case of lymphatic leukemia occurred in the experimental animals. Other clinical, hematologic, and pathologic changes were noted.

• Research Organization: Harvard Medical School, Boston; Walter Reed Army Inst. of Research, Washington, D.C.; Univ. of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Oak Ridge
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• NSA Number: NSA-13-020848
• OSTI ID: 4213092
• Journal Information: Radiation Research, Journal Name: Radiation Research Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 11; ISSN 0033-7587
• Publisher: Radiation Research Society
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

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62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
AIR
ANIMALS
BLOOD
BODY
DISEASES
GAMMA RADIATION
IRRADIATION
LETHAL DOSE
LEUKEMIA
LYMPHOCYTES
MOCKUP
NUMERICALS
POLYMERS
RADIATION DOSES
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATION INJURIES
RADIATION SICKNESS
RADIOACTIVITY
RECOVERY
STANDARDS
STATISTICS
SURVIVAL TIME
SWINE
VARIATIONS
WATER