Radioactive discharge from patients with thyroid cancer under 131l treatment and its safe disposal to the public sewer system

Wspolczesna Onkologia

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-41

  Tavakoli, Mohamad Bagher ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biological half life; Radiation dose; Radioactive waste discharge; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DRUG HALF LIFE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATIENT CARE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THYROID CANCER;

EID: 16344392332     PISSN: 14282526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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