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By CATHY KIRKHAM
Battalion Reporter
i Texas A&M University would be an ideal location for a sequel to
Alfred Hitchcock s movie, “The Birds.
Keith Arnold, a professor in the wildlife and fisheries, said that the
25,000 birds now roosting on campus are causing problems for the
! maintenance people.
He said that three years ago when the problem first surfaced there
were an estimated two or three million birds on the campus at one
] time.
The giant flocks consisting of graekles, starlings, cowbirds and
sparrows have been roosting in the live oak trees around the
Academic building.
Eugene Ray, director of ground maintenance, said that in the eve
nings the trees are completely black, filled with birds.
The birds have not hurt any vegetation or caused any other prob
lem except for making a terrible mess, Ray said.
Dr. Claude Goswick, director of the University Health Center,
said the birds are no real health hazard. He said there are few dis
eases that can be transmitted by birds to humans, especially by the
kinds of birds on campus.
During the 1975 Christmas break, about 25,000 birds were shot on
campus. This was done with permission from the Federal Wildlife
Commission.
Ray said that students objected not because of the shooting but
because of the injured birds which were left unattended.
In 1977, gas cannons and amplified distress calls carried in trucks
were used to scare the birds and encourage them to move.
Arnold said this method has been fairly effective but that there
aren’t enough units to do the job right.
T think the best way to deal with the problem is to prune the trees
way back,” he said.
Arnold said that when the tests are completed in a few days, the
birds will be moved again, either by gas cannons and calls or by
pruning the trees.
Neu? X-ray in development
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Texas A&M officials are trying to rid the cam
pus of an estimated 25,000 birds. Gas cannons
and tree pruning are being used in an effort
to scare off the birds. These birds were roost
ing in trees just north of the Systems Building
about sundown Tuesday.
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
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[engineers at the Mayo Clinic in
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ition for study by specialists looking
for disease or studying an organ’s
eration.
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lie organ, such as the heart, the
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ion. jjid display on television tubes de-
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were W* E "It’s as if you cut the heart out of
! adminii he body, put it in front of an X-ray
hile Ke* machine and took a picture of it,”
lid Dr. Richard Robb, chief scien-
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id'fiveoi liodynamics Research Unit.
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patial reconstructor (DSR), is an
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able to produce cross-sectional
views of the brain and other areas of
the body.
But each scan by today’s
machines takes at least a few sec
onds. This means they are too slow
to generate clear views of moving
organs like the heart.
The DSR will add a fourth dimen
sion — time. It will take its X-ray
pictures in a 100th of a second to
produce stop-action images of a
single heart beat.
Dr. Earl H. Wood, senior con
sultant on the project, described the
machine at a recent American Heart
Association seminar and said a pro
totype should be in experimental
operation within a year.
He said it should be valuable for
studying many parts of the body in
addition to the heart. One potential
use, he said, would be in the early
detection of lung cancer.The
machine will use 28 rotating X-ray
tubes to produce almost instantane
ous two-dimensional images on a
A doctor can then direct the com
puter to call out of its memory a
wide variety of views of the organ to
be displayed on a television screen.
“The structure of this volume can
be sectioned mathematically in any
direction or manner that the
biologist or physician requires to
explore a biologic process or possi
ble clinical diagnosis,” Wood said.
Although the patient would be
examined by 28 separate X-ray
bursts, Wood said the radiation dose
would be minimal because of such a
short exposure.
The machine, now being built
with government support by the
Raytheon Co., will be 15 feet in
diameter, 25 feet long and will
weigh 25 tons.
It also will be expensive. Wood
estimates commercial models might
cost between $1 and $2 million.
T predict there will be a machine
of this type in five to 10 years in
every big medical center,’’ Wood
said.
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