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[DAVID HARRISON <DHARRISON@doe.lanl.gov>]

Hope to see you in Seattle.  DPH

>>> Mike Stabin <stabin@esper.com> 06/27/96 07:36pm >>>
>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