Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5477639 | Journal of Environmental Radioactivity | 2017 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Of the activity administered to the patient, approximately 10â3% (50-110 ppm) is exhaled. The radioiodine inhalation taking place following exhalation in the vicinity yields doses of up to 500 μSv (children, staying with the patient immediately after application and for the next 8 h). Three days after administration the doses are significantly reduced. This study lays emphasis on previous assumptions that exhalation depends on thyroid storage. Regardless of the type of thyroid disease, the predominant form exhaled is organic radioiodine. The amount of exhaled radioiodine is small but from the point of view of radiation protection, by no means negligible immediately after administration. Radiation doses received by incorporation of exhaled radioiodine can easily exceed 100 μSv soon after administration of radioiodine. Three days after RIT the radioactivity can still be measured in the exhaled air but even at maximum, the annual doses lie far below 10 μSv and are thus comparatively low.
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Authors
F. Sudbrock, Th. Fischer, B. Zimmermanns, A. Drzezga, K. Schomäcker,