RE: medical waste

["Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

>Add I-123 to the list, as it can be contaminated by up to 10% I-124



George - Is this still the case? I thought that production methods for

I-123 had been mostly corrected to eliminate this. If the target and/or

beam energy is changed (I forget the details here) I thought that I-124

contamination would not occur, although I-125 contamination could. The

latter is usually dosimetrically less important.



Mike



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