Re: Patient Dose Rates

[xug2@rpi.edu (George Xu)]

I would like to know the answers too.  Please post!

George Xu, RSO
Rensselear Polytechnic Institute

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