Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz, Kuala Lumpur
  • 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Guy's Hospital, St Thomas Street, London SE! 9RT
Med J Malaysia, 1996 Mar;51(1):131-3.
PMID: 10967992

Abstract

A total of 10 volunteers were monitored for radiation doses, whose spouses were given radio-iodine (131I) orally. Nine of the spouses were given radio-iodine for Graves' disease and one for thyroid carcinoma. It was found that the highest radiation dose received by the volunteer was only 13.5% of the annual dose limit for individual members of the public. Hence, patients treated with radio-iodine do not pose a significant radiation hazard to the public.

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