ScienceNews has an update on the Molybdenum-99 diagnostic imaging isotope shortage. With the shutdown of the Chalk River and Petten nuclear reactors, Mo-99 production has fallen to 30 percent of normal. The article reports three strategies hospitals are employing to deal with the shortage. Some are putting patients on wait lists. Others are working longer [...]
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Yesterday was National Dosimetrist’s Day, and I would be remiss if I did not thank all of the dosimetrists out there that do such a great job. The dosimetrist is often the hub of a radiation therapy department, interacting with physicians, physicists and therapists on a daily basis. They will follow a patient throughout their [...] Just because there hasn’t been a One Star Mondays post in a while, that doesn’t mean I have run out of bad music to share. We have only just begun (hey, that may be a song to use in the future) to scratch the surface of the bad music that has accumulated over the centuries. [...] The last article in this series examined the distribution of dose inside a patient when they are treated with a single therapy beam. The question is, how do we use this knowledge to treat a patient in the most effective manner? We want the patient’s tumor to receive the dose that the physician prescribes, but [...] My knowledge of the Scottish legal system is fairly limited (ok, non-existant), but it looks like the sad case of Lisa Norris, a 16 year old girl who died in 2006 after receiving a radiation dose 58% greater than prescribed, is under investigation yet again. A fatal accident inquiry has just been launched looking into [...] |
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