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Volume 61, Issue 12
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  • The Effect of Plucking and Pruning on the Reduction of Radioactive Caesium Concentration in Tea Leaves Grown in Kanagawa Prefecture
    Yoshiya SHIRAKI, Nobuhiro KITA, Hajime TAKEDA
    2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 587-594
    Published: 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: December 28, 2012
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3769/radioisotopes.61.587
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    We conducted this study to understand the regional differences of radioactive caesium concentration(134Cs +137Cs) in the first crop of tea in Kanagawa prefecture. No relations were observed between the radioactive caesium concentration(134Cs +137Cs) in the first crop of tea and the sampling point of distance from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, altitude, amount of rainfall(March 15 to 31, 2012), and frequency of rainfall(March 15 to 31, 2012).
    Multiple regression analysis was performed to understand the reduction factor of 137Cs concentration from the second crop of tea. The reduced 137Cs concentration was related to the 137Cs concentration in the first crop of tea(X1) and frequency of plucking and pruning(X2).
    Multiple correlation coefficients of the analysis with reduced 137Cs concentration as the dependent variable and X1 and X2 as explanatory variables was 0.915(p<0.01), coefficients of determination were 0.838. In the case of the analysis with 137Cs reduction rate as the dependent variable and X2 as the explanatory the variable was 0.755(p<0.01), and the coefficients of determination was 0.570.
    The regional differences in radioactive caesium concentration did not depend on distance from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, altitude and precipitation in Kanagawa Prefecture. However, it became clear that the reduction rate of 137Cs concentration from the second crop of tea could be explained to be about 57% by frequency of plucking and pruning.
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Technical Report
  • A Simple Method to Measure of Radioactivity on the Lungs in 99mTc-Technegas Inhalation Study
    Kiyoshi HIRASE, Masahisa ONOGUCHI, Katsuya SHIINA, Sachiko TOGASHI, Sy ...
    2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 595-600
    Published: 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: December 28, 2012
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3769/radioisotopes.61.595
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    99mTc-Technegas inhalation scintigraphy is replacing ventilation scintigraphy using radioactive inert gas. 99mTc-Technegas, which is carbon nanoparticles, has a characteristic of a smaller and uniform particle size. When 99mTc-Technegas is inhaled into the lungs of patients, it is promising to perform the inhalation in an additional space because the inhalation procedure probably results in an equipment and floor contamination, which gives radiation exposure to staffs. The method mentioned above needs to measure 99mTc radioactivity in the lungs. The aim of this study was to design simple measurement using phantom study. Radioactivity of a phantom was obtained by using an ionization chamber survey meter. Radioactivity in the lungs of patients who inhaled 99mTc-Technegas was measured by using an ionization chamber survey meter, correlated with the radioactivity of the phantom data. Our established method was able to accurately and simply measure radioactivity of the lungs in all of the patients who underwent 99mTc-Technegas inhalation study.
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  • Questionnaire Survey of SPECT Studies after the Supply Shortage of Tc-99m and Model Analysis Concerning Earnings and Expenditure of Generator Use
    Ryo KINOSHITA, Shigeru KOSUDA, Katsumi KOIKE, Takashi ARAI
    2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 613-618
    Published: 2012
    Released on J-STAGE: December 28, 2012
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3769/radioisotopes.61.613
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    A questionnaire survey was conducted to evaluate decrease in SPECT studies and its causes after the cessation of long supply shortage of 99Mo/99mTc generators. Of the replies by the chief nuclear medicine technologists, no necessity for 99Mo/99mTc generator use or for domestic supply of 99mTc unexpectedly accounted for 25% and 46%, respectively. Generator use leads to an additional profit by 8654 yen per patient, compared to purchase of commercially available 99mTc-labeled kits. It is essential to install a 99Mo/99mTc generator to perform emergency SPECT studies, increase a profit in hospital management, reduction of financial issues in patients, and pediatric studies. This adverse circumstance, however, may provide a good opportunity to instruct nuclear medicine specialists to be aware of the importance mentioned above in medical meetings.
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