autoradiograph, n.
(ɔːtəʊˈreɪdɪəʊgrɑːf)
[f. auto-1 + radiograph.]
An image of an object produced on a sensitive film by the radioactivity of the object itself. Hence as v. trans., to produce an autoradiograph of. Also ˌautoradiˈography [F. autoradiographie], the production of an autoradiograph; ˌautoradioˈgraphic, -ical adjs., pertaining to or involving autoradiography; ˌautoradioˈgraphically adv. Cf. radio-autograph.
| 1903 Dublin Rev. July 170 Auto-radiographs of thorium. 1941 Physical Rev. LX. 688/1 Recently autoradiography has been of value in tracer studies of biological substances. 1943 Amer. Mineralogist XXVIII. 459 The elements are arranged in the order of decreasing suitability for autoradiographic study. 1947 Nature 9 Aug. 193/2 Suppose now that a layer of tissue one cell thick is to be autoradiographed. 1955 G. A. Boyd Autoradiogr. in Biol. & Med. i. 7 In 1940, Hamilton [et al.]..used radioiodine to study the thyroid autoradiographically. 1956 Nature 25 Feb. 379/1 To prepare radioactive streptomycin for autoradiographical studies of its distribution in the body. 1958 New Scientist 2 Jan. 24/1 The tool material on the metal is sufficiently radioactive to darken the film in its neighbourhood and thus takes its own photograph. This is called an autoradiograph. 1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. xiii. 207/2 Autoradiographs show the radioactivity to be confined to the carbonaceous material which is clearly epigenetic in origin. |