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Next viewgraph, please (LRA-17).
factors for jiodine-131 then.

This is simply a comparison of those

This is what is in use, or what we estimate,

for the dose factor for iodine-131 and extrathyroidal iodide concentrating
tissues.

For thyroid, we use a dose factor of 1.9 rad/uCi.

lactating breast our estimate is -- excuse me.
breast is 4.5 x 10-4 rad/uCi.

depending on our approach.
10-3.

For stomach,

here --

assuming

and

the

The dose factor for the

For the lactating breast we have two values,

1 x 10-3 or 3 x 10-3.
this

stomach

For the

is -as an

I

For salivary glands, 7 x

don't want

to emphasize

extrathyroidal

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organ, total body, approximately 1 x 10-3.

lt

MIRD.

i2

ICRP-30.

iodide concentrating

These are the dose factors from

This is found in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine,

Now the next slide (LRA-18)

stomach

1975, and from

summarizes some hypothetical dose esti-

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mates -- well, this is actually patterned after one of our litigants, and

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the assumption is that she is a nursing mother.

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values in our printouts, assuming the adult female.

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we made a calculation for the dose from iodine-131 to the lactating breast,

These are the calculated
Breast, 0.024.

Now if

we would have -- from jodine-131 alone we would have an additional
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approximately 50 percent to be added to this calculated value.

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case

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approximates the dose from all radionuclides to the total body.

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of

the

salivary

glands,

we

estimate,

Now in summary then, the dose to extrathyroidal

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organs from iodine-131

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now will follow with various other items.

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oh,

CHAIRMAN

MOSELEY:

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And in the

millirads

there

questions

Thank you very much.

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for

which

iodide concentrating

is very low relative to that to the thyroid.

Are

of

Dr. Ng

at

this

Lynn

point.

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