Re: Thalium Stress Test (fwd)

[Ccja@aol.com]

NUREG/CR-6345, Radiation Dose Estimates for Radiopharmaceuticals, by the
estimable Mike Stabin et alia, gives a patient EDE estimate of 6.0E-1 rem/mCi
for thallium-201 chloride (plus contaminants); as others have indicated, 4
mCi is a typically administered quantity. Note that this estimate is really
for a male, since the program they use selects, I believe, the greater of the
two possible values for the gonads (in this case, the difference is about a
factor of 2), when it computes the EDE.

chris alston
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