Penza Regional Hospital named after N.N. Burdenko

USSR. Penza. Head of Department No. 35 "Laboratory of Radioisotope Diagnostics", radiologist-toxicologist Vladimir Fedorovich Kochetkov (in the foreground) and senior nurse of the department Antonina Konstantinovna Kovaleva during a study of the functions of external respiration in a patient using the "Xenon-I" apparatus at the N. N. Burdenko Regional Clinical Hospital. In the mid-1970s, the laboratory conducted functional studies of the heart, kidneys, cerebral and peripheral blood flow, determination of external respiration, scanning of the liver, kidneys, thyroid gland, and lungs. Since 1975, phosphorus-32 was first used to treat patients with syringomyelia. Yuri Nabatov/TASS