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Radiation Exposure to the Family of Radioactive Patients

Sister Nola Wells

Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Correspondence: For reprints contact: John C. Harbert, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Rd., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007.

ABSTRACT

Eleven patients treated with ¹³¹I for thyroid carcinoma or thyroid ablation and their immediate family members were monitored by film badge for radiation exposure. The results indicated that the current AEC regulation permitting a patient body burden of 30 mCi at time of hospital discharge is conservative.

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