Measuring an 'active person' with the HMLs emergency response instruments
| Autor: | Gary H. Kramer, Barry M. Hauck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Occupational Health Services Disaster Planning Whole-Body Counting Bone and Bones Radiation Protection Radiation Monitoring Occupational Exposure medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Medical diagnosis Radiometry Radionuclide Imaging Measure (data warehouse) Whole body counting Radiation Radiological and Ultrasound Technology business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results Technetium Equipment Design General Medicine medicine.disease Kinetics Emergency response Software deployment Calibration Human monitoring Radiation monitoring Female Occupational exposure Medical emergency business |
| Zdroj: | Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 144:321-325 |
| ISSN: | 1742-3406 0144-8420 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/rpd/ncq428 |
| Popis: | The Human Monitoring Laboratory has had a unique opportunity to measure two volunteers who had received (99m)Tc-labelled compounds for routine medical diagnosis to check the performance of its emergency monitoring equipment. The fixed and portable whole-body counters, some hand-held monitors and portal monitors were all used to measure the 'radioactive' persons. This study validated the current emergency calibrations that are being used, and has shown areas for improvement for equipment deployment that had not been previously anticipated. The results obtained suggest, for one individual at least, that the biokinetic model for (99m)Tc-methyl diphosphonate was not a good predictor of that person's metabolism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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