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detecting medical isotopes at airport security

To: radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu
Subject: detecting medical isotopes at airport security
From: knwachter@juno.com
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:46:02 GMT
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:56:54 -0600
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Does anyone know of incidents where residual medical isotopes in a traveller's body set off radiation monitors at an airport?  A cardiologist mentioned to me that he had heard of Tl-201 a day or two after a cardiac scan tripping alarms at some airports.  Just curious.



knwachter@juno.com



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