Real-life radiation burden to relatives of patients treated with iodine-131: A study in eight centres in Flanders (Belgium)

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1368-1376

  Monsieurs, Myriam ^a,b   Thierens, Hubert ^a   Dierckx, Rudi A ^b   Casier, Kristien ^b   De Baere, Elisabeth ^g   De Ridder, Leo ^e   De Saedeleer, Carlos ^c   De Winter, Hugo ^c   Lippens, Marian ^f   Van Imschoot, Sylvia ^h   Wulfrank, Denis ^d   Simons, Maria ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d Maria Middelares Hospital   (Belgium)

^e Algemeen Ziekenhuis Sint Lucas Brugge   (Belgium)

^f Algemeen Ziekenhuis Sint Lucas Gent   (Belgium)

^g MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^h General Hospital St Jan   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Iodine 131 therapy; Thyroid carcinoma; Thyrotoxicosis

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RELATIVE; SLEEP; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROTOXICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY BURDEN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROTOXICOSIS;

EID: 7344257794     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002590050310     Document Type: Article

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