Re: incident details

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

One (1) rem (cGy, rad here) is easily remembered "off the top of the head"

as the average CT dose, according to my local hospitals with new GE and

Phillips machines.

That one rad/year is also about 10 x the "low ambient" dose and 1/50 the "threshold" of benefit to harm (Luckey). These are points of reference that I hope HPs will increasingly use for technical advice about a potent medicine.

Howard Long

AndrewsJP@AOL.COM wrote:

In a message dated 2/6/2002 11:42:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, joseroze@NETVISION.NET.IL writes:
 
 

Henry said the dose will likely prove to be within federal guidelines, which amounts to about 1 1/2 to 5 times the amount of radiation produced by a single CT Scan.
 

And we all know off the top of our head what the "amount of radiation produced by a single CT scan" is.