Favourable results have been obtained in the treatment of persistent joint effusion with radioactive agents (e.g. Ansell, Crook, Mallard, and Bywaters, 1963; Virkkunen, Krusius, and Heiskanen, 1967; Delbarre, Cayla, Roucayrol, Menkes, Aignan, and Ingrand, 1970; Oka, Rekonen, Ruotsi, and Seppalii, 1971). The future of this kind of radiotherapy is largely dependent on whether the ionizing radiati...

1. NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE AND DECOMMISSIONING 1.1 National framework 1.1.1 Overview of national policy The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) of the Korean government developed the “National Radioactive Waste Management Policy” at the 249 th meeting held on September 30, 1998. The policy stipulates that the site selection process for radioactive waste ...

PURPOSE This retrospective study was aimed at revealing the safety and short-term outcome of radioiodine treatment in patients with Graves' disease at outpatient clinic. METHODS From July 1999 to April 2002, 511 patients with Graves' disease were treated with radioiodine at the outpatient clinic of Tajiri Thyroid Clinic, Kumamoto. Of them, 73 patients dropped out or were referred to another m...

Purpose Calculation of effective thyroidal half-life (Teff) of iodine-131(131I) is cumbersome and tedious. The aim of this study was to investigate factors that could be used to predict Teff and to develop a Teff prediction model in Graves' disease patients. Methods A total of 256 patients with GD were involved in this study. We investigated the influences of age, gender, disease duration, th...

if all pregnant women worry about their fetus, worries of pregnant nurses are more serious and actual. which groups of women have more chance about hydatidform mole, amniotic fluid embolism or sheehan’s syndrome? fortunately, these complicated problems are very rare but what about daily injuries due to infectious diseases, radioactive substances, anticancer drugs and other chemical substances? ...

• The Kety-Schmidt method for measurement of regional blood flow was first applied to the heart by Eckenhoff et al. These investigators employed coronary sinus catheterization to measure myocardial blood flow with nitrous oxide. The use of a radioactive gas and an external detector for the measurement of organ blood flow was investigated by Conn, Lewis et al., and Lassen et al. The radioactive ...

In this paper, an intelligent radioactivity and radiation dose monitoring system is designed, which can be used in the field of nuclear medicine. The dynamically monitor body surface rate patients receiving 131 I radioactive drug treatment, identify personnel who exceed threshold send out sound light alarm. Compared with other equipment, has higher accuracy guide clinical treatment medicine sci...

background: poorly educated people in some parts of iran use burned mantles as a wound healing medicine. materials and methods: to perform surface area measurement, twenty rats were divided randomly into two groups of 10 animals each. the first group received topical burned radioactive lantern mantle powder on the first to third days after making excision wounds. the second group received non-r...