DAILY SNAP - HUMAN PHYSICAL FIELDS STUDIED WITH EXTRA-SENSITIVE EQUIPMENT

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• Publication Date: August 20, 1987
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oviet preparations on the basis of this
search.
Chazov discussed the potential ad-
vantages of organizing joint work on
certain problems, such as development of
preparations for treating AIDS patients.
He claimed that the USSR Academy of
Sciences' Institute of Molecular Biology
has the potential to develop such a
preparation quickly. He mentioned that he
and colleagues developed a method for
synthesizing nalokson (a preparation for
treating drug addiction and shock) in
collaboration with academician A. V. Fokin.
Chazov went on to discuss steps which have
been taken to improve the system for
testing and appraising medicinal prepara-
tions and medical technology. A Main
Scientific-Technical Administration is
being created in the Ministry of Health,
for example. All control institutes are
being combined into an Institute for State
Expert Review, and a new system is being
introduced for the purpose of substantially
expediting the testing of new drugs. Under
this system, the first clinical stage in
the study of a preparation will be com-
^ted in 14 days. A conclusion will then
,issued in regard to the advisability of
"continuing work on the preparation.
Marchuk endorsed the idea of targeted
planning for promoting the advancement of
medical research of major importance in key
areas. He noted that drafting of a special
large-scale program has been proposed for
this purpose. Such a program would
provide, among other things, for future
integration of efforts of the USSR Academy
of Sciences and AMN SSSR with those of the
ministries of the medical and microbiologi-
cal industry, the chemical industry and the
ministry of instrument building, means of
automation and control systems. Chazov
felt that work on specific problems of
combating AIDS should be included in such a
program.
Author: Lvov, Grigory
Title: HUMAN PHYSICAL FIELDS STUDIED WITH
EXTRA-SENSITIVE EQUIPMENT
rimary Source: Sovetskaya Belorussiya,
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August 20, 1987, No. 191 (17074), p. 3,
cols. 1-7
Abstract: The article reports on methods
used by scientists of the USSR Academy of
Sciences' Institute of Radio Eng1peeri_ng_
and Electronics to study fields which occur
around human beings and other living
organisms in the course of breathing and
other vital processes.* This research was
directed by academician Y.uriy...Gulyayev and
Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences
Eduard Godik. Initial results of the
projecf were reported recently at a
scientific session of the USSR Academy of
Sciences' Department of General Physics and
Astronomy.
A unique computerized measuring complex
consisting of several connected systems was
developed at the radio engineering in-
stitute for the project. This equipment is
said to include an infrared-imaging system;
a computer complex; capacitive antennas for
recording movements of low-energy electric
charges on a subject's skin; a unit
consisting of a magnetometer and a super-
conductive quantum interference sensor
(skvid); a special phonon-counting system
for recording changes in the skin's
luminescence; and apparatus for monitoring
the condition of the subject's immediate
surroundings, using such methods as
thermography and laser spectroscopy. The
imaging system, which records infrared
radiation from 16,000 points on the body's
surface, is capable of measuring their
temperature 10 times a second with a
precision of hundredths of a degree, it is
claimed. This information is transmitted
to the computer, which is used to distin-
guish sections ort the skin's surface where
temperatures change in certain ways, and to
trace the pattern of these changes over a
period of time. The skvid-magnetometer is
said to be capable of measuring magnetic
fields which are billions of times weaker
than the Earth's magnetic field. Subjects'
fields were measured with the aid of 64
sensors connected to this unit. Correction
for interference from external sources,
such as electromagnetic fields of natural
objects and industrial facilities, was done
with the aid of the computer complex and
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pecial devices.
The complex reportedly enabled the
`j. ,~ enti sts to obtain original experimental
measurements of the intensity and spatial
distribution of fields surrounding living
beings, and also to determine human
sensitivity to fields generated by another
human organism. This was accomplished by
simulating fields with instruments. It was
found that a human being is capable of
sensing changes in another person's
infrared radiation, and possibly also of
sensing low-energy electric fields of
another organism. It was discovered that
the skin can sense variations in a heat
flow from an external source which are on
the order of 0.3-0.5 milliwatt per square
centimeter, for example.
*See also the Daily--SNAP, January 8, 1987,
p. 1, col. 2
Correction: On page 2 of the September 9,
1987, issue of SNAP, the first sentence of
,,the item on an explosion for military
poses should read: "On August 25, at
\-,,.,'JO p.m., Moscow time, a ground burst of a
conventional explosive charge was conducted
..." The title should be corrected
accordingly.
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