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IN view of the complexity in the collection of muscle tissues from autopsies throughout the country to assess the total body burden of caesium-137 in Japanese people, an attempt was made to assess it by the analysis of whole blood1. This method presents the problem of the relation between the concentration of caesium-137 in blood and the total body burden, when an equilibrium condition is not attained between the total body and diet or blood.
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YAMAGATA, N. Geographical Variation in the Total Body Burden of Caesium-137 in Japanese People as assessed by Blood Analysis. Nature 207, 211–212 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207211a0
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