Three members of the SNM RAdiation Dose Assessment Resource (RADAR) task group
announced in April the development of a new tool for use in calculation of dose to family …

Medical licensees are required to comply with US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
regulations pertaining to the release of patients administered radioactive material. However …

Historically, nuclear medicine has been largely a diagnostic specialty, utilizing relatively low
administered activities to obtain important diagnostic information whose benefits far …

Opposition comments included statements representing the viewpoints of physicians,
medical physicists, and radiation safety officers, as well as professional organizations …

This regulatory analysis was developed to respond to three petitions for rulemaking to
amend 10 CFR parts 20 and 35 regarding release of patients administered radioactive …

TO THE EDITOR: I would like to draw attention to a discrepancy between 2 versions of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulatory Guide 8.39,“Release of Patients …

Radiopharmaceuticals are unique among therapeutic agents in that they do not limit their
effects to the patient undergoing treatment, but may directly affect the health and safety of …

ABSTRACT The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received two petitions to
amend its regulations in 10 CFR Parts 20 and 35 as they apply to doses received by …

WHILE we wait for an updated version to NCRP 37, ICRP offers in Report 94 information
regarding the release of patients containing therapeutic amounts of radionuclide. There is …

In this issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Rutar et al.(1) describe a very practical
study in which the authors monitored the exposure of family members of patients released …