[ RadSafe ] I131 patient during intercontinental flight

[Mauro Campoleoni]

Dear colleagues,
apart the core of the question posted,
I wonder whether anyone of you knows "for sure" that
somewhere there are airport radiation alarm monitors deployed .

Thanks.

Mauro Campoleoni
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hill, Peter" <p.hill at fz-juelich.de>
To: <radsafe-eu at fz-juelich.de>; <radsafe-d at fz-juelich.de>; 
<MEDPHYS-D at strahlentherapie.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Cc: "Moshe Levita" <mlevita at tasmc.health.gov.il>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] I131 patient during intercontinental flight


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At 09:21 09.02.09, Moshe Levita wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
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>Many Iodine 131 patients arrives in Israel to be treated and then fly back 
>home.
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>The patient stays in the award until the residual dose is below certain 
>level.
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>(Residual activity is calculated by the measurement of dose rate at 1 m)
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>I wonder at what residual activity it will be reasonable to allow the 
>patient to fly back to his country.
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> One have to take into considerations :
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>1.  Five hours flight of sitting beside another passenger (who might be a 
>child or pregnant women)
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>2.  Definite contamination of the airplane toilet, toilet cleaning, toilet 
>disposal etc.
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>3.  Possible triggering of airport radiation alarm monitors.
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>Any suggestion will be welcomed.
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>Moshe Levita
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>Chief Radiation Executive
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>Ministry of Health
>
>Israel
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