Re: Patient Info Following Iodine Therapy

["Hans Richter" <HRICHTER@engr-serv.usc.edu>]

  Ccja   wrote:

> Date:          Tue, 11 Jun 96 13:18:39 -0500
> From:          Ccja@aol.com
> Subject:       Re: Patient Info Following Iodine Therapy

> NUREG-1492, "Regulatory Analysis on Criteria for the Release of 
>Patients E.g., the ingestion of 40 uCi I-131, where the ALI is 30. Note 
>that 
            <snip> 
>   a typical diagnostic dose, for persons with thyroids, is >200 uCi.


Note that an   I-131   ( 8 day T/2  and  a beta/gamma emitter)   diagnostic 
dose  was  50 uCi  or less.    The 200 uCi dose is only for  I-123   ( 13 hour 
 T/2 and    a  159  keV gamma emitter)



Hans Richter
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