Exposure from patients

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

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>Date:         Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:03:45 -0500
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>From: Shackie <HobieS@CONCENTRIC.NET>
>Subject:      Exposure from patients
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>For all of you involved in the release of patients containing
>radioactive material, especially at the new NRC-allowed levels, I wanted
>to bring a very useful spreadsheet template (Excel) to your attention.
>The authors of an article in the latest issue of Physics in Medicine and
>Biology have made two templates available online that will calculate the
>exposure from a "hot" patient with various isotopes, retention/decay
>functions, and contact functions (in time intervals and distance). One
>template is less flexible than the other but still comes with many pre
>loaded functions that can be modified by the user to individual patient
>measurements or living patterns. Even the "simple" template is VERY
>impressive and comes with an I-131 Hyperthyroid treatment case for a
>person with high contact with an infant. It indicated that even for this
>"low" dose exposure to the infant would be significant. The template is
>very professional with an excellent report format. You RSO's should be
>able to sit down with the patient and easily run through several "what
>if" scenarios (like sending junior to grandma's for the weekend) to
>custom fit a protection plan.
>
>The templates are based on:
>John Cormack, Jane Shearer, Calculation of radiation exposure from
>patients to whom radioactive material have been administered, Phys Med
>Biol 43, 501-516, March 1998.
>
>The templates are available at:
>ftp.flinders.edu.au
>(then change directory to PUB/Medphys the PC version is CCExPC and there
>is a MAC version)
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>The connection was a bit slow when I tried it but well worth the wait.
>Read the text file for info on the Excel options that have to be setup.
>
>Hobie Shackford
>Medical Physicist
>Roger Williams Medical Center
>Providence, RI
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>hobie.s@usa.net
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