Re: Powernet: ILLINOIS RADIOGRAPHER RECEIVED 15 SIEVERT (1,500 REM) TO HIS LO...

[Dave Derenzo <dave@UIC.EDU>]

Last year at the HPS meeting I was asking many vendors the same 

question.  They said that their marketing was driven primarily by the 

nuclear power industry, who wanted more bells and whistles.  I used and 

liked the old Eberline Rad Tads, but they haven't been made in a long 

time.  I suggested to John Handloser of HPI that there was a market out 

there for a chirper, which would be very useful for Cardiology and 

Angiography physicians.  At the time I didn't think of 

radiographers.  Other users might include well-loggers, people using 

gauging devices, irradiators, teletherapy units, linacs, etc.  Maybe if 

John were to get a few more people suggesting that such a device would be 

useful, we would see an economical well designed chirper hit the market.



At 10:34 PM 5/28/02, Ted de Castro wrote:

>I agree - have you tried to buy a just plain chirper lately???

>Everything is an EPD and much more expensive (and complicated) than a

>simple chirper needs to be.

>

>They have gotten carried away - they don't need to be exposure or energy

>linear - they just need to be sensitive, robust, non-paralyzable and

>cheap.  The cheaper they are - the more they will be bought - and used.

>

>Funny how the impression is that the general public is overly frightened

>of radiation - but from the accident reports it would seem that

>radiographers just don't care!  Hard to align those two notions.

>

>AndrewsJP@AOL.COM wrote:

> >

> > Why Oh Why don't radiographers use chirpers?  These little devices

> > PREVENT this kind of accident.

> >

> > John Andrews

> > Knoxville, Tennessee

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