Apatient receives a gamma scan of his liver. he ingests 3.7 mbq of 198au, which decays with a 2.7 day half-life by emitting a 1.4 mev beta particle. medical tests show that 60% of this isotope is absorbed and retained by the liver. if all the radioactive decay energy is deposited in the liver, what is the total dose equivalent received by the patient's 1.5 kg liver once all the atoms have decayed?

Before a cranberry can make it to your dinner plate, it must pass a bouncing test which rates its quality. if cranberries having an e ú 0.8 are to be accepted, determine the dimensions d and h for the barrier so that when a cranberry falls from rest at a it strikes the incline at b and bounces over the barrier at c.

An 81-year-old man and avid reader had a mild stroke from which he eventually recovered. he did have some residual signs and symptoms, however, such as: - right-sided homonymous hemianopia (i.e. loss of vision on the right half of the visual field in each eye) - alexia ("dyslexia"), the inability to read, which greatly frustrated this man - loss of sensation on the skin on the right side of the body why was this man unable to see the right half of his field of vision?

Anurse is assessing clients on medical surgical unit which adult client should the nurse identify as being at greater risk for insensible water loss?