Answer to Question #7376 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"

Category: Nuclear Medicine Patient Issues — Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine

The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field:

I am having a gastric emptying nuclear medicine test done; can you tell me the amount of radiation exposure that is involved in this test? I am getting 0.5 mCi of techneticium-99m sulfur colloid.

For your 0.5 mCi dose, the effective dose is 18 mrem.

Marcia Hartman, MS

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