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THE use of an automatic scanning device under the control of a computer has been described for measuring the blackening of autoradiographs to examine the distribution of radioisotopes in microscopic areas of bone1.
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LLOYD, E., ROWLAND, R., HODGES, D. et al. Surface to Volume Ratios of Bone determined by Computer Analysis of Microradiographs. Nature 218, 365–366 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218365a0
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