Re: No Subject

[stabin@esper.com (Mike Stabin)]

>If the FDA publications to which you're referring are those in the series
>that includes the "Handbook of Selected Tissue Doses for Projections Common
>in Diagnostic Radiology" (published 12/88, superseding the one published in
>5/76), the problem with the older ones is that they don't give enough tissue
>doses to complete the ICRP weighting protocol in a straightforward way. The
>newer ones, (e.g., the Handbook of Selected Tissue Doses for Fluoroscopic and
>Cineangiographic Examination of the Coronary Arteries) it's true, do.

You might also contact a guy named Ed Tupin at the FDA DHHS office.  He does
calculations for this sort of thing, and also distributes a software package
for x-ray dosimetry.  The software, as I recall, also requires input of a
fair number of variables, but Ed can probably guide you through it for many
situations.

> ICRP Publication 53 "Radiation Dose to Patients from
>Radiopharmaceuticals" is very useful to health physicists, in this regard.

I might mention that recently released NUREG/CR-6345 has some updated info
on patient doses from radiopharmaceuticals (only adults at present - we hope
to get some published data for children, too).

Mike Stabin
Radiation Internal Dose
   Information Center