Radiation Exposure of the Members of the Public from Patients Treated with 3.7 GBq and 1.85 GBq of 131I—May We Simply Divide by 2?

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In this work, the dose to the members of the public from two different 131I thyroid ablation patient groups (1.85 GBq and 3.7 GBq), whose a priori programmed hospitalization time is 48 h, is compared. The possibility of allocating half of the hospitalization time (24 h) for patients treated with 1.85 GBq is evaluated, having in mind the dose to the family members after patient release. The maximum dose rate at 1 m from the patient was measured at approximately 20 min, and 24, 48, and 192 h after administration of 3.7 GBq to 70 patients and 1.85 GBq to 55 patients. A triple exponential biological decay combined with physical decay was considered. Different weighting coefficients were applied to the squared residuals, allowing improved fitting and optimization of the calculation of the effective dose received by the public, E, by integration from 24 h or 48 h to infinite. Effective dose at 1 m from patients with 3.7 GBq after being released at 48 h is similar to the case of patients trea

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