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In 1950, Leonidas D. Marinelli developed and applied a low-level gamma-ray whole body counter to measure people who had been injected with radium in the early 1920s and 1930s, contaminated by exposure to atomic explosions, and by accidental exposures in industry and medicine [4] [5] The sensitive methods of dosimetry and spectrometry Marinelli ...
Graph of body mass index showing the various divisions. Created by me using gnuplot and Adobe Illustrator 9/23/06, released into public domain Category:Medical diagrams: 03:52, 24 September 2006: 800 × 800 (58 KB) InvictaHOG~commonswiki: Graph of body mass index showing the various divisions.
The male cadaver is from Joseph Paul Jernigan, a 39-year-old Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection on August 5, 1993. At the prompting of a prison chaplain he had agreed to donate his body for scientific research or medical use, without knowing about the Visible Human Project.
Whole body imaging (WBI) refers to the display of the entire body in a single procedure. In medical imaging , it may refer to full-body CT scan or magnetic resonance imaging . It may also refer to different types of Full body scanner technologies used for security screening such as in airports.
Body mass index – Relative weight based on mass and height (Total mass divided by the square of height) Body roundness index – Body scale based on waist circumference and height; Body shape – General shape of a human body; Body shape index – Human health index (Waist circumference compared to its allometric average)
The Canberra distance is a numerical measure of the distance between pairs of points in a vector space, introduced in 1966 [1] and refined in 1967 [2] by Godfrey N. Lance and William T. Williams. It is a weighted version of L ₁ (Manhattan) distance . [ 3 ]
In 1957 the Paton Committee recommended a National Library as an independent statutory body. [ 9 ] In 1960 the National Library of Australia was created [ 7 ] by the National Library Act 1960 , [ 10 ] and each library became a separate entity.