The radioautographic transfer function and its implications for radioautographic methodology

A function was developed to relate the radioautographic detectability of tritiated thymidine to its incorporation into nuclear DNA under various experimental and specimen processing conditions. The implications of this function for the interpretation of cell kinetic studies were outlined, and its implications for radioautographic methodology were discussed. The standardization of radioautographic methods for facilitation of comparisons of data obtained from different sources under dissimilar experimental conditions was discussed.