liver spleen scan

[M Nivas <motnivas@YAHOO.COM>]

Greetings all,



A friend of mine is having a liver spleen scan with

technetium m99.  I beleive this has a half life of

about six hours - then it turns into technetium 99

with a half life over A hundred thousand years.  The

question he has is should he keep distance from family

and how long?  I looked up the biological half life

and it seems to be 60 hrs.



Also, I guess he will find out tomorrow, what the

initial dose is - (I do not know of the dose usually

given for this diagnostic test).



Any useful knowledge would br deeply appreciated



Thanks in advance - Tom Savin



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