When handling unsealed radioactive sources, radiological protection attention must be taken to avoid unnecessary exposure and contaminations, an important necessary practice prevent such contaminations is the use of gloves when these sources. The present work aimed determine effectiveness contamination provided by different types disposable polymeric used in Nuclear Medicine Service Clinic Hosp...

dear editor:   the nuclear denotation due to the leakage from nuclear electricity plant in japan after the giant tsunami is a great concern. there are many possible health effects including induction of ophthalmic disorder on the affected population to the nuclear denotation. indeed the observation on the effect of radioactive leaking from the nuclear plant after the well-known nuclear leakage ...

A method is described for the quantitative separation of radioactive bile acids and neutral sterols in human faeces on a potassium hydroxide-treated silicic acid column. Results obtained with faecal extracts containing metabolites derived from radioactive cholesterol, cholic acid, and chenodeoxycholic acid show that the efficiency of extraction is at least 96% and that mutual contamination betw...

This report presents the results of a medical survey carried out in ,March 1957 on the Mar-shallese people who were accidentally exposed to radioactive fallout in March 1954. The accident occurred following the detonation of a large thermonuclear device durin,g experiments at Bikini in the Pacific Proving Grounds. An unpredicted shift in winds caused deposition of significant amounts of fallout...

A windowless silicon (Si) diode (4 mm(2)) was evaluated as alpha particle detector and spectrometer for field measurements. It was irradiated with alpha particles from a (241)Am (2.3 kBq) and a (210)Po (9 kBq) source at source-detector distances (SDD) of 0.5, 1.0 and 1.8 cm. The energy resolution in terms of full width at half maximum was 281, 148 and 113 keV for SDD of 0.5, 1.0 and 1.8 cm, res...

Lymphoscintigraphy for sentinel node (SN) localization was performed on a 60-y-old man with a melanoma on his back. Skin contamination occurred as a result of the radiopharmaceutical dose administration. Skin contamination could result in a misinterpretation of the SN location. Careful observation of the procedure avoided a misinterpretation with this study.