RE: Sm153

["Carolan, Martin" <CarolanM@iahs.nsw.gov.au>]

I have just collected a multipeak spectrum from a fraction of a Sm153 dose
which was delivered about 6 months ago for a patient who cancelled. (NB from
an Autralian supplier of Sm153.) I have not yet correlated the observed
peaks with Eu 154 but the dose rate on the exterior of the vial is about the
order of 30uSv/hr - six months after the 6 GBq of Sm153 was delivered. 

Regards

Martin Carolan
Senior Physicist
Department of Nuclear Medicine
Wollongong Hospital
Wollongong NSW 2500
AUSTRALIA
email carolanm@iahs.nsw.gov.au <mailto:carolanm@iahs.nsw.gov.au> 
phone 61 2 4222 5224
fax 61 2 4222 5238
internal page # 252.
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