Re: Shielding requirements for I-131 rooms

[Richard Smart <R.Smart@unsw.edu.au>]

Dear Sergio,



I recommend that you look at the document that was produced by the NSW

Hospital and University Radiation Safety Officers Group in Australia.  It

can be found at http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/ohs/hursog/I131GUID.PDF



At least one facility in a Sydney hospital has been constructed using these

Guidelines, and all subsequent dose rate measurements were as predicted.



Richard Smart



At 17:39 10/07/01 +0200, Dr. Sergio Faermann wrote:

>Dear radsafers

>

>As i have to calculate the shielding requirements for an existing room

>that is being adapted for I-131 therapy( 2 patients /wk), I'm looking on

>references on shielding calculations for the walls and door.

>I would like also to hear from your experience on the subject

>

>Thanking you in advance

>

>Sergio faermann,Ph.D.

>Soroka Medical center

>Beer-sheba, Israel

>

>

>

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Richard Smart PhD

Principal Physicist and Radiation Safety Officer

Nuclear Medicine Department

St. George Hospital

Kogarah

NSW, 2217, Australia

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