Estimation of the activity and doses to personnel which intake Iodine 131 by coffee consumption in a cabinet of Nuclear Medicine
Creators
- 1. ININ, 52045 Ocoyoacac, Estado de Mexico (Mexico)
Description
Soon after an incident in a cabinet of nuclear medicine, its were carried out in the National Institute of Nuclear Research of Mexico (ININ), a series of bio essays measurements by whole-body counting to six people attributed to this cabinet. Of six people, five are classified as Occupational Exposed Personnel (POE), and the other one that works as secretary, according to the General Regulation of Radiological Safety, is classified as public member. Six people that were involved in this incident, the one which presumably it took place among November 15 and 18, 2002 and that it consisted on the effusion of a vial containing an unknown quantity of Iodine-131 to a coffeepot, they ingested coffee in diverse quantities. The Iodine-131 is used in nuclear medicine, so much for the illnesses diagnostic like in the treatment of thyroid cancer and of hyperthyroidism. (Author)
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Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (Spanish)
- Estimacion de la actividad y dosis a personal que ingirio Yodo 131 por consumo de cafe en un gabinete de Medicina nuclear
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 5 p.
- Report number
- INIS-MX--1931
Conference
- Title
- 14. Annual Congress of the SNM; 21. Annual Meeting of the SMSR
- Original Conference Title
- Energia Nuclear y Seguridad Radiologica: Nuevos retos y perspectivas
- Dates
- 10-13 Sep 2003
- Place
- Guadalajara (Mexico)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Mexico
- Country of Input or Organization
- Mexico
- INIS RN
- 36107125
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCIDENTS; ACTIVITY LEVELS; BEVERAGES; DIAGRAMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH-PURITY GE DETECTORS; INTAKE; IODINE 131; LABORATORIES; NAI DETECTORS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PERSONNEL; SINGLE INTAKE; THYROID
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BODY; DATA; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FOOD; GE SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; GLANDS; INFORMATION; INTAKE; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; IODINE ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MEDICINE; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ORGANS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIOISOTOPES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS