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Iodine 131 is a radioisotope with a very short half-life of 8
Iodine 131 is a radioisotope with a very short half-life of 8.02 days,
making it highly radioactive. It is frequently used in small doses in thyroid cancer therapies. It has a biological half-life of 138 days. I-131 of 1 ?Ci is administered to a patient's thyroid of 20g. Assume that each I-131 decay release 0.23 MeV of beta-gamma energy, which is all absorbed by the thyroid.
(a) Find its effective half-life tE.
(b) Find its effective decay constant ?E.
(c) Determine the effective number of I-131 atoms administered based on ?E.
(d) Determine the total dose (in Gy and rad) received by the organ for this treatment.
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