کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1739200 1016838 2008 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Liquid discharges from the use of radionuclides in medicine (diagnosis)
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی هسته ای و مهندسی
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Liquid discharges from the use of radionuclides in medicine (diagnosis)
چکیده انگلیسی
The production and discharge of liquid radioactive wastes as excreta from patients undergoing Nuclear Medicine Diagnostic (NMD) in a hospital were studied. Instantaneous and accumulated activity, discharged from the hospital to the sewage system, has been estimated keeping in mind radionuclide decay. This study would enable estimation of the environmental impact due to NMD procedures. Annual accumulated activities of 2.2 GBq (131I), 1.847 GBq (99mTc), 0.743 GBq (123I), 0.337 GBq (67Ga), 0.169 GBq (111In) and 0.033 GBq (201Tl) result from our model when applied to a European hospital. A comparison is made with calculations by other authors that do not consider the radionuclide decay and who overestimate by two orders of magnitude. Doses to critical people as sewage treatment workers are also significantly reduced. So, our results stress the importance of including the decay in the calculations.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity - Volume 99, Issue 10, October 2008, Pages 1535-1538
نویسندگان
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