30 Nov 2021
Problem 76
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Section: General Problems
Chapter 31: Nuclear Energy; Effects and Uses of Radiation
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Given information
Given that weight of the patient is 55-kg and is to be treated with which decays by emitting a 140-keV gamma.
The half-life for this decay is 6 hours and half the gamma photons exit the body without interacting with anything.
We are asked to find the initial activity of the Tc sample if the whole-body dose cannot exceed 50 mrem.
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