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Index 



Biology and medicine, influence of 



physics in, 10 

 Biophysical factors in drug action, 



13 

 Blood counts and volume dose, 212 

 — .- flow, measuring peripheral. 53 

 Blowfly larva, cuticle of, 24 



— larvae, uptake of ethyl alcohol 



by, 22 

 Body dose of radiation, total, 217 

 Both electrocardiograph, 38 

 Brain damage from rotation, dis- 

 tribution of, 79 



— injuries, mechanics of, 74 



— movement in injuries, skull and, 



77, 78 

 British and American values of 



dose distribution, 228 

 Bronchoscope, 3 



Calculation of heat dosage, 64 

 Callipers, 226 

 Capillary electrometer, 38 

 Carcinoma of the rectum, treatment 



by high-voltage X-rays, 257 

 — , reaction chart of basal-celled, 



167 

 Carcinomata, radiation effects in 



human. 162 

 Cathode-ray oscillograph, 39 



— oscilloscope, double-beam. 41 

 Cell categories found in epithelial 



tumors, 165 



— division and cell differentiation in 



normal tissue. 104-106 



— membrane, analog}' between in- 



sect cuticle and, 30 

 Cellular population of tumors, 164 

 Changes in biological response of 

 avian fibroblasts caused by in- 

 creasing doses of radiation, 102 



— in volume of a brain region, 75 

 Chaoul therapy. See Contact 



therap3^ 

 Charged particle radiation. 190 

 Chemical effects of radiation. 155 

 Chemotherapy and radiation, 109 



Chromatid breaks. 150 

 Chromosome aberrations, induced, 

 147 



— abnormality as a quantitative 



measure of radiation effect, 96 



— breaks, 148, 149 



— structural changes, mode of pro- 



duction of, 151 

 Chromosomes and genes, stability 

 of, 140 



— by different ionizing radiations, 



structural changes induced in, 



126 

 — , structural changes caused by 



radiation. 148 

 Chronaxie meters and electronic 



stimulators. 37 

 Classification of X-ray therapy, 



216 

 Clinical application of heat, 59 

 Colorimeters, photoelectric, 52 

 Comparing the biological effects of 



X-rays, neutrons and other ion- 

 izing radiations, 114 

 Compton scattering, 178 

 Condenser dosemeter, 183 

 Contact therapy, 219 



— therapy field, isodose curves for, 



217 



Continuously evacuated tubes, 243 



Contrecoup injuries, 80 



Control of culture growth, 51 



Convection, heat, 60 



Corpuscular emission, 179, 188, 

 190 



Culture growth, control of, 51 



Cuticle, effect of mixed drug sys- 

 tems on insect, 21 



— of blowfly larva, 24 

 Cyclotron and betatron, 55 



D 



Decomposition of dilute solutions 

 by radiation, 122 



— of molecules by radiation, 121 



122 



— of water by radiation, 122 



