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Advances in biological and medical physics. Volume 1 /
Advances in Biological and Medical Physics, Volume 1, provides an overview of the state of knowledge in biological and medical physics. The book contains 10 chapters and opens with a discussion of methods by which isotopes can be employed in medical and biological problems, and the factors that infl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Academic Press Inc.,
1948.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Advances in Biological and Medical Physics; Copyright Page; Contributors to Volume I; Foreword; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Heavy and Radioactive Isotopes in Clinical and Experimental Medicine; I. INTRODUCTION; II. THE MEDICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ISOTOPES; III. CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF ISOTOPES; IV. SOME APPLICATIONS OP ISOTOPES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE; REFERENCES; Chapter 2. Nitrogen and Carbon Isotopes: Their Application in Vivo to the Study of the Animal Organism; I. INTRODUCTION; II. METHODS; III. THE METABOLISM OF NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; IV. CARBOHYDRATE AND FAT METABOLISM.
- V. CONCLUSIONREFERENCES; Chapter 3. The Nature and Production of Artificial Radioactivity; I. THE NATURE OF RADIOACTIVITY; II. NUCLEAR REACTIONS; III. CHEMICAL FACTORS IN RADIOISOTOPE PRODUCTION; IV. AVAILABILITY OF RADIOISOTOPES; GENERAL REFERENCES; SPECIFIC REFERENCES; Chapter 4. Fundamentals o�i Radioactivity and Its Instrumentation; I. INTERACTION OP RADIATION WITH MATTER; II. RADIOACTIVITY UNITS AND STANDARDS; III. BASIC INSTRUMENTS FOR THE DETECTION OF IONIZING RADIATIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. Health-Physics, Instrumentation, and Radiation Protection; I. SCOPE OF HEALTH-PHYSICS.
- II. PAST EXPERIENCE IN PROTECTIONIII. EXPOSURE STANDARDS; IV. ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF A TYPICAL HEALTH-PHYSICS GROUP; V. INSTRUMENTS; VI. SOME ELEMENTARY FORMULAE AND CALCULATION METHODS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6. The Use of Radioactive Isotopes in the Study of Iron and Hemoglobin Metabolism and the Physiology of the Erythrocyte; I. INTRODUCTION; II. ABSORPTION OF IRON; III. DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSPORT OF IRON; IV. EXCRETION OF IRON; V. MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES USING TAGGED IRON; VI. EFFECT OF VARIOUS CONDITIONS ON IRON UPTAKE; VII. IRON METABOLISM IN PATHOLOGIC STATES.
- VIII. RED CELLS TAGGED WITH RADIO-IRONREFERENCES; Chapter 7. Radioactive Phosphorus: Its Application to the Study of Phospholipid Metabolism; I. INTRODUCTION; II. SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE USE OF RADIOACTIVE PHOSPHORUS AS A LABELING AGENT IN THE ANIMAL BODY; III. THE AMOUNTS OF THE ADMINISTERED P32 INCORPORATED INTO PHOSPHOLIPIDS BY TISSUES OF THE ANIMAL BODY; IV. How P32 CAN BE USED TO MEASURE THE RATE OF TURNOVER OF PHOSPHOLIPIDS IN THE ANIMAL BODY; V. PROBLEMS IN PHOSPHOLIPID METABOLISM TO WHICH P32 HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED; VI. SUMMARY; REFERENCES.
- Chapter 8. Iodine MetabolismI. INTRODUCTION; II. THE ENTRY AND DISTRIBUTION OF IODINE IN THE BODY; III. THE FATE OF IODINE IN THE THYROID GLAND; IV. THE MECHANISM OF THE EXCRETION OF IODIZED COMPOUNDS FROM THE THYROID; V. THE FATE OF THE IODIZED COMPOUNDS EXCRETED BY THE THYROID; VI. INFLUENCE OF VARIOUS FACTORS ON IODINE METABOLISM; VII. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 9. The Effects of the Atomic Bomb Irradiation on the Japanese; I. INTRODUCTION; II. NATURE OF THE PHYSICAL AGENTS; III. TYPES OF INJURY (GENERAL); IV. CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF WHOLE BODY IRRADIATION IN ANIMALS.