publication of an up-to-date manual in a concise and convenient form, which should be in the hands of every practitioner. The more widely such knowledge is spread amongst the profession, the sooner will the day arrive when public opinion backed by the medical profession will demand a radium-institute in this country. Until that day arrives practitioners can only equip themselves to advise their...

This research examines the measurements of radiation detection and heavy metals in blood samples leukemia health groups using CR-39 nuclear track detectors X-ray fluorescence. The results show that minimum maximum values uranium contents found male (18 years) female (55 patients, respectively. concentration (Pb, Cd, Ni) radium is higher samples, as compared with their healthy samples.

BACKGROUND In Alpharadin in Symptomatic Prostate Cancer (ALSYMPCA) trial, radium-223 versus placebo prolonged overall survival with favorable safety in castration-resistant prostate cancer patients with symptomatic bone metastases. Long-term radium-223 monitoring underlies a comprehensive safety and risk/benefit assessment. OBJECTIVE To report updated ALSYMPCA safety, including long-term safe...

A Python program is presented to expedite the process of correcting raw data and propagating related uncertainties from Radium Delayed Coincidence Counting (RaDeCC) instruments. The performance was validated against an established method with real data. Excellent agreement between determinations excess radium-223, actinium-227, radium-224, thorium-228 radium-226 achieved, minor discrepancies in...

This study aims to assess the environmental hazards from radon exhalation rate in the soil samples in selected locations in Iraqi Kurdistan, using passive (CR-39NTDs) and active (RAD7) detecting method. Radon concentration, effective radium content and radon exhalation rate were estimated in soil samples that collected at the depth level of 30 cm inside 124 houses. The results show that the ema...

Of all the scientific discoveries of the last year one stands pre-eminent, not only from its scientific importance, but als? from the great public interest it has excited. I refer to discovery by Mons. and Madame Curie of radium. Thl5 discovery was not like that of the Rontgen rays suddenly, but had been led up to by the researches 0 Becquerel and of Rontgen, and was ultimately due to ^e painst...

The uranium (238U) decay series provides the most important isotopes of elements radium (226Ra), radon (222Rn), and polonium (210Po) with half-lives of about 1600 years, 3.8 days, and 140 days, respectively. Although the chemical structure of radium is very similar to calcium, the fact that it produces a radioactive gas (radon) complicates its handling in the laboratory and natural environment....

To assess the environmental radioactivity levels and hence to determine the population exposure in Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh the sediment samples were analyzed by using gamma ray spectrometry. In those sediment samples the average activity concentration of natural radionuclides 238U, 232Th and 40K were found 15.39±1.67, 38.35±0.76 and 475.51±21.15 Bq/kg respectively. ...

Two important facts have drawn the attention of medical men to radio-activity. The first fact was the observation that radium rays affect the tissues of the human bod}\ For ljke Ronto-enrays they are able to cause serious injuries to&the skin. The first man who tried to utilise radium rays for medical purposes was Dr. Danlas of the St. Louis Hospital in Paris, who used them successfully to cure...