Re: Dose Rates from Patients -Reply -Reply

["Wesley M. Dunn" <WDUNN@brc1.tdh.state.tx.us>]

Except for one minor problem.  The reference is to the area that
the individual could be in, not the individual who could be in the
area.  In other words, it is a high radiation area if a person COULD
receive 100 mrem in one hour at 30 cm.  NOT whether a person DOES
receive 100 mrem in that hour.

Wes

> Date:          Wed, 10 Jul 96 11:29:14 -0500
> Reply-to:      radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> From:          Bill Pitchford <wpitch4d@IMAP2.ASU.EDU>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject:       Re: Dose Rates from Patients -Reply -Reply

> If an individual is in an area with a rate of 101 mr/hr for 45 seconds
> there is a vast difference between that and 101 mr/hr for 45 minutes, but
> if those individuals spend no other time in that area in any one hour,
> they still do not enter a "high radiation area" per the regulations.
> How often do practitioners spend major portions of hours in proximity to
> a given patient ? This is a still abbreviated explanation of my
> previous statement.
>
> Bill Pitchford
> Radiation Protection Facility
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, Arizona 85287-3501
>
> On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Keith Brown wrote:

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