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IN 1963, we reported that the hair of rats injected with strontium-90 retained a significant amount of the radionuclide, and suggested that measurement of the radioactivity of the hair might furnish a non-destructive method of estimating the bone content, or body burden, of the radioisotope1. This concept has been confirmed recently by Delia Rosa et al.2 in work on the strontium-90 content of beagle hair during and following the chronic ingestion of the radioelement.
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STRAIN, W., LANKAU, C. & PORIES, W. Zinc-65 in Human Hair. Nature 204, 490–491 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204490a0
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