As a prerequisite for quantifying the non-radiation effect of Thorotrast, nonradioactive and radioactive aquasols with identical physicochemical properties and with biophysical behavior comparable to that of Thorotrast were developed and produced for a second long-term animal experiment. Comparative investigations with hafnium and zirconium (zirconotrast) dioxide aquasols showed the latter to be most appropriate considering the size of both the dispersoids and the aggregates in the liver tissue. The average particle diameters of ThO2, ZrO2 and HfO2 proved to be values of 9.3 nm, 15 nm and 45 nm, respectively. The size of the aggregates shows a slight dependence on the applied amount but no dependence on the duration of body burden of the colloid. The aggregate diameters in the 600 microliters group turned out to be 9.6 microns, 14.4 microns and 5.3 microns, respectively. Radioactive zirconotrast was prepared by radiochemical incorporation of 230Th and 228Th at dose rates which produce accumulated doses in the liver of rats equivalent to those of commercial 230Th enriched Thorotrast after 1.5 yr. Five different colloids were prepared with alpha-energy emission rates increased by factors of 1, 2.5, 5, 10 and 25 compared to Thorotrast and then injected into rats.
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