The monitoring of contaminated impervious planar surfaces
| Autor: | J. E. Palethorpe, P Anderson, A Nightingale, Stuart Green, D.A. Bradley, D. Peach |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
Radionuclide
business.industry Physics::Medical Physics Radiochemistry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Contamination Stainless Steel Physics::Geophysics Iodine Radioisotopes Planar Radiation Monitoring Floors and Floorcoverings Occupational Exposure Impervious surface Environmental science Equipment Contamination Humans Nuclear medicine business Waste Management and Disposal Phosphorus Radioisotopes Common emitter Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m |
| Zdroj: | Journal of radiological protection : official journal of the Society for Radiological Protection. 19(1) |
| ISSN: | 0952-4746 |
| Popis: | The responses of several types of surface contamination monitor have been investigated for three typical working surfaces contaminated by three radionuclides commonly used in diagnostic or analytical biomedical applications. Of the three radionuclides, 99mTc is an intermediate-energy gamma emitter, 125I decays by electron capture, emitting low-energy x-rays, and 32P is a moderate-energy beta emitter. For each radionuclide monitored values have generally been found to be within 30% of projected response, this being based on calibrations which make use of standard radionuclide sources and conditions. The several types of contaminated non-absorbent surface that have been investigated produce monitored values which for a given type of monitor and radionuclide cannot be differentiated from each other. |
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