Not exact matches
FAIR SHAKE The word in Las Vegas last week was that the «short, chubby man from Connecticut» who
made 50 straight passes at a Dunes crap table not long ago (SCORECARD, Oct. 30) and collected $ 25,000 might have been using dice coated with cobalt - 60 — a
radioactive substance — along with a small electronic device that would control their fall.
Very recently a new technique called positron emission transverse tomography has been developed that
makes it possible to detect from outside the skull the presence of deoxyglucose or other
substances labeled with positron emission
radioactive isotopes.
Food laced with
radioactive substances would be fed to the subjects and an attempt
made to monitor their physical condition over the ensuing years.
It seems likely that before very long we shall have discovered many useful therapeutic and technological applications for the
radioactive substances which can be
made in the production of fissionable materials.
A radiologist is a person who
makes use of the
radioactive substances and X-rays to diagnose diseases in the human body.