Re: Thalium Stress Test (fwd)

[Bob Dunn <rso.gscancer@worldnet.att.net>]

Bruce Busby wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Ok.. as long as we are doing doses, any one have a good estimate for this:
> 
> Subject: Thalium Stress Test
> 
> Last month I was doing a basics of radiation presentation at a municipal
> emergency management agency and was discussing contamination vrs.
> exposure using a coleman lantern mantle (thorium).  Using a volunteer
> from the audience, to my surprise, when I removed the sorce the ludlem
> frisqer continued to peg the meter at the 10 times scale.  Upon further
> investigation we found that the reading was coming off the hand of a man
> four rows back in the audience who had had a heart thalium stress test
> earlier in the week.  Of course the question came up on what was the
> approximate exposure for an individual who receives a stress test and is
> their any exposure to others.  Can you help me out???
> 
> Thanks....
> 
> -Bruce Busby
>  bbusby@umich.eduDear Bruce, 
Please supply me with a fax # and I will send you any and all dose 
estimates you like. 
Bob Dunn
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