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Cytogenetical Dose Estimation for 3 Severely Exposed Patients in the JCO Criticality Accident in Tokai-mura
1 Jan 2001
Abstract excerpt
A dose estimation by chromosome analysis was performed on the 3 severely exposed patients in the Tokai-mura criticality accident. Drastically reduced lymphocyte counts suggested that the whole-body dose of radiation which they had been exposed to was unprecedentedly high. Because the number of lymphocytes in the white blood cells in two patients was very low, we could not culture and harvest cells by the...
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