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Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, Vol s3-98, 155-158, Copyright © 1957 by Company of Biologists

A Note on the Opacity to X-Rays of Tissues fixed with Mercuric Chloride

G.E. H. FOXON 1

1 Department of Biology, Guy's Hospital Medical School, London, S.E. 1

The radiography of ‘soft’ tissues normally requires special X-ray apparatus which generates soft X-rays. Fixation with mercuric chloride, either alone or in mixture, has been found to render such ‘soft’ tissues opaque to those harder X-rays generated by normal clinical X-ray apparatus. Radiographs made by the use of such standard apparatus may be useful in several fields of biological research such as anatomical investigation and illustration, or in the study of the penetration and behaviour of the fixatives themselves.






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