PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ponto, James A.
AU  - Graves, Joe M.
TI  - Personnel Radiation Dose from Leukocyte Labeling Procedures: Indium-111 Oxine Versus Technetium-99m HMPAO
DP  - 1991 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 236--237
VI  - 19
IP  - 4
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/19/4/236.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/19/4/236.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.1991 Dec 01; 19
AB  - Although technetium-99m (99mTc) HMPAO leukocytes deliver substantially lower absorbed doses to patients than do indium-111 (111In) oxine leukocytes, we expected that the pharmacist or technologist performing the labeling procedure would receive a higher radiation dose from 99mTc due to the larger amounts of activity being utilized. Thermoluminescent dosimeters were used to measure radiation doses during actual labeling procedures with 99mTc HMPAO and 111In oxine. These measurements showed that the radiation doses from 99mTc leukocyte labeling procedures are 3.3 times higher for the whole body and 4.6 times higher for the hands than are the doses from 111In leukocyte labeling procedures.