Re: Patient Dose Rates

[coogen_michael@hq2ccgw.hq.dla.mil]

I would recommend that you perform radiation surveys meters on your patients 
once they are dosed.  You can count the squares on the floor to determine 1 
meter, 2 meters or 3 meters.  Internal dose calcuations for a specific 
radionuclide is included with the radiopharmaceutical insert for administration.
 I believe that this is standard procedures in all nuclear medicine 
departments...mike coogen sends


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Subject: Patient Dose Rates
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at hq2ccgw
Date:    7/7/95 10:09 AM


     I have been asked to calculate the external (gamma) dose rate from 
     patients following a wide variety of nuclear medicine procedures. 
     While there is a large amount of data, and methodology, to calculate 
     organ and/or patient doses, I cannot find much data about the dose 
     rate from them that others might be exposed to. (There is some limited 
     data in NCRP 37, but it considers everything as a point source and 
     neglects attenuation within the patient's body.)

     Has anyone done actual dose rate measurements on patients after 
     nuclear medicine procedures? Is this data readily available anywhere?



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