RE: Bone Scan

[Karin Gordon <KGordon@exchange.hsc.mb.ca>]

The Cormack & Shearer "Radiation Exposure from Patients" spreadsheets are
available via anonymous ftp from ftp.flinders.edy.au,  cd
PUB/medphys/CCExMac (Mac version) or PUB/Medphys/CCExPC (PC version).  

E-mail address for Dr. Cormack is rajc@gamgee.cc.flinders.edu.au

I would strongly recommend that you obtain a copy of the Cormack and Shearer
article I referenced, because it lays out all the assumptions and formulae
used in the derivation of the spreadsheets.  What we liked about the
spreadsheets was that instead of using the default values, we were able to
substitute our own values from actual experimentally measured doses (using a
tissue-equivalent source phantom irradiating tissue-equivalent adult and
infant target phantoms) that we had done locally.  We are in the process of
submitting that work for publication.

With warm regards

Karin
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Karin Gordon RTR, RTNM, RTT
Radiation Safety Coordinator
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Health Sciences Centre
GC-214, 820 Sherbrook Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
CANADA, R3A 1R9

phone   (204) 787-2903
fax        (204) 787-1313
e-mail    kgordon@hsc.mb.ca
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro Almeida [mailto:palmeida@fc.ul.pt]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:55 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: Bone Scan


Dear Karin,

Can you please direct me to the software allowing dose estimation to
caregivers and familly for nuclear medicine studies?
Thank you very much !

Pedro Almeida
Professor
Biophysics and Medical Physics
University of Lisbon
PORTUGAL




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