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E Takada

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[Adenocarcinoma].

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Dosimetry and measured differential W values of air for heavy ions.

Heavy-ion irradiation systems were designed and constructed at two cyclotron facilities in Japan for use in various fields of radiation physics and radiation biology. A 135 MeV/u carbon beam as well as 12 MeV/u carbon and helium-3 beams were first used in experiments. We have established a systematic method for heavy-ion dosimetry at both high and low incident energies involving measurements of fluences. We also obtained differential W values (w) of air for those beams by comparing the results of fluence measurement dosimetry with ionization chamber dosimetry. The differential W values of air were found to be 36.2 +/- 1.0, 34.5 +/- 1.0, and 33.7 +/- 0.9 eV for 6.7 MeV/u carbon ions, 10.3 MeV/u 3He ions, and 129.4 MeV/u carbon ions, respectively. The w value for high-energy heavy ions approaches the W value for high-energy electron or photon beams. In ionization chamber dosimetry for a heavy-ion beam, we found a track-size effect. A difference in the track sizes of heavy ions in the gas and solid phases affected the output current of the ion chamber in the case of high-energy heavy ions.

Carbon↗

Pulmonary surfactant apoprotein-A in neonates with different respiratory disorders.

A serial determination of pulmonary surfactant apoprotein-A (SP-A) was made on tracheal aspirates from seven intubated infants with different types of respiratory failure in the first week of life. A two-site immunoassay with monoclonal antibodies was adopted to determine the SP-A concentration. The concentrations of albumin in the same samples were also assayed, and these data were expressed as the ratio of SP-A to albumin (SP-A/albumin ratio), and evaluated against clinical data such as the arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio (a/APO2) or ventilatory index. In infants with respiratory distress syndrome, the SP-A/albumin ratio was initially low, and increased gradually in the first few days of life with the improvement of a/APO2 and ventilatory index. The complication of pulmonary hemorrhage due to patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) resulted in a temporary decrease in the ratio. The infant with transient tachypnea of the newborn showed higher concentration from the first day of life and, in the course of PDA without pulmonary hemorrhage, the ratio did not decrease. The cases of congenital pneumonia showed the SP-A/albumin ratio remaining low while the infection was evident. These data suggest that the SP-A/albumin ratio of the tracheal aspirate can be used for the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of endogenous pulmonary surfactant in newborn infants with different respiratory disorders.

Albumins↗