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Medical Utility of a Total Body Counter—a Four-Year Assessment¹

Los Angeles, California

ABSTRACT

A total body counter can become a useful acquisition in a large hospital or medical center, providing unique assistance in the area of clinical diagnosis and medically oriented research, by applications of radioactive isotopes as tracers. Information of diagnostic value in problems involving the metabolism of iron, calcium, serum proteins and potassium can be obtained routinely and often solely by the TBC, without hospitalization of the patients or quantitative collections of excreta. The shielded enclosure of a TBC permits certain radioisotope uptake test, such as measurement of the fixation of radioiodided by the thyroid gland, to be performed with greatly reduced radiation dosages. Valuable and students who work with radioactivity; emergency monitoring of personnel from nuclear industries in the community; and measurement of gamma activities in the local population-at-large, arising from environmental contamination.

FOOTNOTES

¹ This work was supported by Contract AT-04-GEN-12 between the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California, Los Angeles.

² Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology, Department of Radiology and Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles, and Wadsworth Hospital, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles.