RE: Occupational vs. Medical Exposures

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

> Sandy Perle wrote:
> >With respect to nuclear medicine procedures, the NRC has interjected 
> >themselves into regulating the dose received by the patient, due to 
> >the procedure performed.
> 
> This is not correct. NRC does not regulate the dose received by the patient
> (or the activity administered). They regulate how much activity can be in a
> patient before he's sent home, but they do not prescribe to the physician
> how much activity is to be injected for a particular type of study.

Doug,

I thought that 10CFR35 would regulate the dose that the patient would 
receive due to the activity administered? I will go back and review 
Part 35...

Sandy Perle
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