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[photcoef <photcoef@tiac.net>]

You can also use PHOTCOEF to calculate tissue dose. For capabilities of this
microprocessor program (running under DOS and WINDOWS). please visit

http://www.photcoef.com

L.M Kehler
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At 09:33 PM 6/27/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>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
>
>