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Show 8A DESERET NEWS, Missile Flight Work Used 9n Heart Study Copley News Service Some of the techniques used to test the flight characteristics of missiles are being harnessed to diagnose problems of the human heart in perhaps the most dramatic example so far of how the space and med-Jcsciences have teamed up. In this instance the tea.n members are the Aerospace Corp., for eight years a nonprofit partner of the U.S. Air Force as a consultant in missile and rocket development; the University of Illinois and Loma Linda University, near Los Angeles. TEST MISSIONS a t hematical formulas, computer programs and electronic equipment developed by Aerospace Corp. under Air Force contracts to study missile test missions are being used to analyze the functioning of the heart. For example, digital data reduction techniques developed in computer programming for missiles are being applied to determine rapidly the pumping capacity of the heart and its blood flow rate. Other techniques developed j to analyze missile structures have been translated to study the basic mechanism of cardi-!a- c muscle function. In other words, what makes the heater pump? , ! J SPACE SCIENCE A third application of space science to medicine involves the use of computer graphics that is, pictures stored In ! computers teaching aids. t In the past, J have developed techniques to 'pumping action y chamber. tures were used as medical cardiologists radiological record the of the heart motion picto show the flow of dyed blood as it passes through each heart chamber. But manual analysis of these j date was time consuming and j Often several expensive. rrt !, i A weeks were required to analyze the countless frames of film needed to produce a single diagnostic study. y The new space related however, used the a display, new technique developed by aerospace corp. to and computer know-hokotion picanalyze the approach, cathode-ray-tub- e g ture data. Consequently, heart sions, capacity and blood flow are being analyzed now by computer programs in a matter of minutes instead of weeks required for diagnosis by a physician. Medical science aLo has borrowed from space science to develop an improved mechanical model for the study of heart muscle behavior. The model is patterned after that used by space scientists and engineers to study the dynamic behavior of missile structures under simulated flight stress conditions. Finally, computer programs developed to analyze and dls-dimen- help. Ask your druggist about new Mrs. of claims -- no wonder youre confused. Your druggist will tell you a doctor often prescribes a laxative that works several ways . . . not just one or two. works tour New SURE-la- x beneficial ways: it lubricates, moisturizes, softens and stimulates. e a prescription is a compound of ingredients that works four ways! 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SURE-la- x With lots of laxatives and lots OHM - A HONG KONG (NANA; major famine is currently sweeping through the northern sector of Kwangtung Province, the scene of heavy flooding last June. According to reports published in the Hong Kong Star, the famine was caused by crop failure. One eyewitness, 5 IjWl play radar signal measurements of missile test flight have been performances regeared to digpst heart dimension data and produce computerized motion pictures of the beating human heart The films are to be used for study by physicians and medical students. ADVERTISEMENT He wants to Famine Grips China Area Ths Pick Of PUNCH Tuesday, December 3, 1963 I f - t , it, ' k4 f, i r 1 i a lot of time. ' ; e i i " fc 4 U " ' ( ' ' J H r , n it 4 J ; T . ; .1 I Js ' : t t r t V |