Published August 1978
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Journal article
Radiation injury from acute exposure to an iridium-192 source: case history
Creators
- 1. Stanley Medical Coll., Madras (India). Dept. of Radiology
Description
A 192Ir source became detached and fell from an industrial radiography camera. A labourer, not involved with radiation work and unaware of the hazard picked up the source and kept it in his hip packet for 2 hr. During this period, he received a skin dose of 13,000 rad and testes dose of 130 rad, the latter resulting in temporary sterility for a period of about 2 yr. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Health Phys.
- Journal Issue
- V. 35(2
- Series
- Health Phys.
- ISSN
- 0017-9078
Conference
- Title
- 4. annual conference on radiation protection.
- Dates
- 12 - 14 Mar 1977.
- Place
- Madras, India.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 10433130
- Subject category
- S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S07: ISOTOPES AND RADIATION SOURCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACUTE IRRADIATION; GAMMA SOURCES; INDUSTRIAL RADIOGRAPHY; IRIDIUM 192; RADIATION ACCIDENTS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIATION INJURIES; SKIN; STERILITY; TESTES
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCIDENTS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BODY; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DISEASES; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; GONADS; HEAVY NUCLEI; INJURIES; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTO; IRIDIUM ISOTOPES; IRRADIATION; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; MALE GENITALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; ORGANS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIOISOTOPES; TESTING; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES