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why is cobalt-60 suitable to use outside the body
it is the most penetrating and it will go through a lot of flesh/muscle
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how is cobalt-60 used
it is kept in a lead container, which should be moved across the opening of the container when it needs to be used
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why is it vital to calculate the correct dose?
too much of it could kill healthy cells
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advantage of using cobalt-60 in radiotherapy
it is easy to make in a nuclear reactor
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give another advantage of using cobalt-60 in radiotherapy
has a half life of 5.3 years so it will not need replaced as much
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give a disadvantage of using cobalt-60 in radiotherapy
it can never be turned off which means that it has to be in a lead case
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give an example of organ affinity
iodine-131
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what does organ affinity mean
type of therapy that works best with one organ
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why do we say that iodine-131 has an organ affinity with the thyroid gland
the gland needs iodine to make the thyroxine
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what does alpha radiation kill in the body
kills the next cell
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what does beta radiation kill in the body
it will go through cm of cells
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what does gamma radiation kill in the body
it will kill the cell that is chosen
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what is cobalt-60 used for
general therapy
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what happens when an optic fibre is bent
the critical angle stays the same, get total internal reflection
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what does refractive index mean
how much light is refracted
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define critical angle
the smallest possible angle of incidence for total internal reflection to occur
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