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Re: Alarms at Borders
Has anyone determined how much this is costing?
--- "Mccormick, Luke I" <luke.mccormick@dhs.gov>
wrote:
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>
>
>
> Please spread the word. Our Operating Directive
> states that each radiation
> detection at a border will be investigated and
> resolved. Most all Customs
> Officers wear pagers and we use a huge number of
> passive radiation
> detectors in the form of portal monitors, cargo
> scanning devices, etc.
> Everyone who sets off an alarm crossing the border
> is sent to secondary
> until the Officers have determined if they are
> ligitimate.
> Many, but not all nuclear medicine departments are
> providing patients with
> letters explaining that the patients have received a
> radiopharmaceutical
> and if we have questions to call the
> doctor/clinic/hospital.For those
> carrying the documents we simpy verify that the
> office is ligitimate and
> call to verify that the person was a patient there.
> We can identify many of
> the radiopharmaceuticals by thier spectrum on site.
> These people pass
> through pretty quickly. The people who don't have
> the documentation are
> asked for the doctor/clinic name and we do the same
> thing but most do not
> know the phone number of the clinic so they may be
> detained for quite a
> while until we get everything straightened out. If
> you are a patient or
> work at a nuc. med. facility, please make sure that
> the paperwork is given
> to the patients and travel restrictions may cause
> them some delays.
> Luke McCormick
>
> ____________________Reply
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> Subject: RE: question concerning stress tests
> Author: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Date: 1/12/2005 12:28 PM
>
>
>
>
>
> Hal & Phil,
>
> Patients ARE setting off alarms NOW. Happens
> a lot at the
> NY/Canadian border, day trippers coming back.
> I heard one
> instance on the Mexican California border
> near San Diego. So
> far it seems the detectors are set up at
> borders and customs
> stations in airports.
>
>
> Any opinions in this e-mail are solely those
> of the author, and
> are not represented as those of the VA
> Eastern Colorado HCS,
> the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, or the US
> Government.
>
> Peter G. Vernig, Radiation Safety Officer,
> MS-115, VA Eastern
> Colorado Health Care System, 1055 Clermont
> St. Denver, CO
> 80220, peter.vernig@med.va.gov, Phone=
> 303.399.8020 x2447; Fax
> = 303.393.5026, alternate fax, 303.393.5248
>
> "...whatever is true, whatever is noble,
> whatever is lovely,
> whatever is admirable, if anything is found
> to be excellent or
> praiseworthy, let your mind dwell on these
> things."
>
> Paul of Tarsus
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On
> Behalf Of Careway,
> Harold A. (GE Energy)
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:30 AM
> To: Radsafe (E-mail)
> Subject: FW: question concerning stress
> tests
>
>
> Phil sent:
>
> Exposures from nuclear stress tests can be
> considerable, at
> least to those of us who have to explain and
> justify every
> last millirem to regulators and activists.
>
> Several years ago I had a stress test and
> made some post
> treatment measurements with a Bicron MicroR
> meter.
>
> Injections of 30 mCi of Tc-99m and 4 mCi of
> Tl-201 result in a
> cumulative dose of ~600 mrem. Seven (7)
> hours after
> treatment, the exposure rate was 17 mR/hr in
> contact with the
> stomach and 20 microR/hr (twice background)
> at 30 feet.
> Exposure rate at stomach level after 2 days
> was ~2 mR/hr, and
> after 7 days was ~0.5 mR/hr. After 3
> weeks, exposure rates
> were indistinquishable from background.
>
> Yes, at those levels, a lot of patients are
> going to be
> setting of the increasing number of post 9/11
> radiation
> monitors in airports, borders, etc.
>
> See
> http://www.philrutherford.com/Stress_Test_2003.pdf
> for
> charts of exposure vs. distance and time.
>
> Interestingly enough, when I asked the
> nuclear technician who
> administered the radiopharmaceuticals, how
> much exposure I
> would receive, he said "Oh, about the same as
> a chest X-ray
> (~10 mrem)." I do not know whether that was
> simple ignorance
> or deliberate misinformation.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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> ------------------
>
> I had the same experience when I went for my
> Cardolite test -
> the technician was able to tell me the
> activity dose I was
> receiving (30 mCi of Tc-99m) but not my
> whole body or
> effective dose in mR or mSv. It was like he
> never heard of
> such a thing and really made me angry.
> Latter I estimated
> that between the two doses I received (1PM
> in the afternoon
> and a second dose at 8AM the next morning) I
> picked up
> somewhere between 1600-1800 mR integrated.
>
> I continued to register above background on
> my Xetex 308A
> until three days after the procedure and the
> first day I could
> set the detector off from 15 feet outside my
> office, what fun.
>
>
> Hal Careway
>
>
>
> .
>
>
>
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