RE: I131 & mobile phones

["Migliore, Charles W" <Charles.W.Migliore@nspco.com>]

Not at the dose rates you will see from a few mCi of I-131, especially after
a little decay. 

Charles Migliore RRPT
charles.w.migliore@nspco.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Alston [SMTP:alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, June 21, 1999 10:14 AM
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> Subject:	I131 & mobile phones
> 
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> >Date:         Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:28:41 +0100
> >Reply-To: Ivan Rosenberg <ivan@MEDPHYS.UCL.AC.UK>
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> >From: Ivan Rosenberg <ivan@MEDPHYS.UCL.AC.UK>
> >Subject:      I131 & mobile phones
> >To: MEDPHYS@cwis-20.wayne.edu
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> >A clinician has reported to me that, very soon after a patient received
> an
> >800MBq I131 dose for thyroid, a mobile phone belonging to the patient
> became
> >faulty, on the way home. The phone did not pack up completely; the
> patient
> >ran out of credit prematurely for normal calls & could only make
> emergency
> >calls. The phone has not yet been checked for faults.
> >
> >Does anyone know whether mobile phones are susceptible to damage by such
> >ionising radiations, or had similar experience of this kind of thing? I
> >believe that infusion pumps (via integrated circuits) are prone to damage
> >during external beam (megavoltage photon) TBI treatments, and so we
> position
> >them outside the path of the primary beam.
> >
> >In these days, with mobile phones ubiquitous, perhaps there will be other
> >claims of radiation-induced damage!
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
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