Radiation safety issues with high activities of liquid I‐125: Techniques and experience

The handling of a liquid radioactive source is a procedure that is uncommon for the average clinical medical physicist. A newly approved treatment device utilizes high activities of liquid I‐125 solution as the source of radiation. The radiation safety issues and our experience utilizing high activi...

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Autores principales: de Guzman, A. F., Kearns, W. T., Shaw, E., Tatter, S., Stieber, V., Yates, C., Amadeo, H., Hinson, W. H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2003
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Radiation Oncology Physics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12777149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v4i2.2529
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description The handling of a liquid radioactive source is a procedure that is uncommon for the average clinical medical physicist. A newly approved treatment device utilizes high activities of liquid I‐125 solution as the source of radiation. The radiation safety issues and our experience utilizing high activity liquid I‐125 sources are presented. To date we have treated 22 patients with infused activities ranging up to 26.8 GBq (724 mCi). The careful manipulation of such solutions is important to maintain a safe environment for the patients and the involved medical staff. PACS number(s): 87.53.‐j, 87.52.‐g
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spelling pubmed-57244732018-04-02 Radiation safety issues with high activities of liquid I‐125: Techniques and experience de Guzman, A. F. Kearns, W. T. Shaw, E. Tatter, S. Stieber, V. Yates, C. Amadeo, H. Hinson, W. H. J Appl Clin Med Phys Radiation Oncology Physics The handling of a liquid radioactive source is a procedure that is uncommon for the average clinical medical physicist. A newly approved treatment device utilizes high activities of liquid I‐125 solution as the source of radiation. The radiation safety issues and our experience utilizing high activity liquid I‐125 sources are presented. To date we have treated 22 patients with infused activities ranging up to 26.8 GBq (724 mCi). The careful manipulation of such solutions is important to maintain a safe environment for the patients and the involved medical staff. PACS number(s): 87.53.‐j, 87.52.‐g John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2003-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5724473/ /pubmed/12777149 http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v4i2.2529 Text en © 2003 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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