Abstract
The calculated dose rate from the radioiodine therapy patient should normally include a factor accounting for the attenuation and scatter of patient body tissues. The attenuation factor is currently neglected, and not applied in operational radiation protection. Realistic estimation of radiation dose rate levels from radioiodine therapy patients when properly performed will reduce operational cost and optimise institutional radiation protection practice. In this work, the existence of a patient body tissue attenuation factor is verified by comparing the dose rates measured from the radioiodine capsules immediately before administration with those measured from the patient immediately after administration. The correlation between the factors suspected to influence the patient body tissue attenuation and the measured dose rates from the patient normalised per unit activity is statistically analysed. The calculated attenuation correction factor based on authors' measurements was (0.55 ± 0.17). The measured dose rate per unit of radioactivity from the patient showed a negative correlation with their body mass index.
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