PHYSICISTS’ MEETING
Four Papers By City Workers
Four Christchurch scientists will present papers at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Medical Physicists' Association, to be held during June 20 to 22 in Wellington.
Mr H. R. Atkinson, a senior physicist of the Dominion Xray and Radium Laboratory. Department of Health, will discuss the marrow distribution in a patient’s bones as a factor in predicting potential damage to the red blood cell-making capacity of the marrow through radiation treatments.
Mr B. D P. Williamson, a physicist of the laboratory, will talk on the occupational hazard to dentists and their staffs from diagnostic Xrays.
Miss B. M. Harrison, chemist, will describe the laboratory's procedures in measuring nuclear bomb fall-out in samples collected in New Zealand. The North Canterbury Hospital Board’s physicist. Mr J. J. Tait, will talk on the use of radioactive isotopes in medical diagnosis and research in the board’s hospitals
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29850, 16 June 1962, Page 13
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