Re: medical isotopes - patient expense

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I believe the calculations show what 150 mCi would

deliver a exposure rate of 12 mrem/h at 1 meter.  That

is why they do not monitor patients receiving

diagnostic scans.  By the way, do you know what the

dosage they gave you?



--- "Celia Rajkovich, RRPT" <celiar@andrew.cmu.edu>

wrote:

> It is stated as 150 mCi "or" be 12 mrem/h @1M. I was

> in excess of 

> 12mrem/h@1M-they would not know that because they

> don't survey people 

> before they leave. They of course meaning the

> facility where I was, not a 

> reference made to all clinics.

> 

. . .





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