RADIATION QUALITY AM) BONE-MARROW DOSK IN RADIOLOGY 



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Australia increased by a factor of about nine, while in the same period, the 

 combined sensitivity of film and screens increased by about five and the 

 population by about 50 per cent. It follows that the amount of radiation fed 

 into the bone marrow of the population has not changed in that period. 



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