[ RadSafe ] FW: Outpatient I-131 Therapy under attack

[gv1 at aol.com]

Now that the President likes Nuclear Power, this kind of talk will quiet down...  Perhaps the VP can give them some feedback...  I hear move star activitists Alec Baldwin and Christie Brinkley are undergoing treatment for their irrational compulsion to nuclear power at the same facility Tiger Woods was treated at.  

We had a person that would qualify as a High Radiation Area (>100 mrem/hr @ 30 cm) if it were reactor radiation and they were also contaminating the place.  The GM Frisker can't tell medical contam from reactor contam.  Needless to say we sent them home with pay...

Glen






-----Original Message-----
From: North, David <DNorth at Lifespan.org>
To: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
Sent: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 10:56 am
Subject: [ RadSafe ] FW: Outpatient I-131 Therapy under attack



>From our experience of over 700 in-patients and 600 out-patients, we have
easured about 0.17 mR/hr/mCi at one meter after administration. That works
ut to about 1.63 mR/hr at 15 feet from 200 mCi, and therefore about 13 mR
n 8 hours. The caution is that the exposure rate per mCi among a bunch of
atients can vary by a factor of 2 either way.
David L. North, Sc.M. DABR
edical Physics
ain Bldg. Rm 317
hode Island Hospital
93 Eddy St.
rovidence, RI 02903
401)444-5961
north at lifespan.org

On 3/18/10 9:53 PM, "Steven Dapra" <sjd at swcp.com> wrote:
> March 18
 
              More whining (in USA Today article) about the danger to
 children.  How many I-131 patients are around children, and for how long?
 
            Assuming that Peter Crane's 200 milliC is true, at an
 average distance of 15 feet, how many millirems would someone receive
 in eight hours?
 
 Steven Dapra
 
 
 At 11:46 AM 3/18/2010, Garner, William H wrote:
> Thought some of you might find this interesting.
> 
> http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-03-18-radcancer18_ST_N.htm
> 
> 
> 
> William H. Garner
> University Of Kentucky
> Radiation Safety Department
> 110 Dimock Animal Pathology
> Lexington, KY  40506-0076
 
 
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