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A 60-kg patient about to have a brain scan is injected with 0.02 Ci of the radionuclide Technetium-99. Technetium-99 decays to the ground state with a half-life of 6.0 hours. The Technetium-99 nucleus decays by emitting a 143-keV photon. Assume that half of these photons escape the body without interacting. What biological equivalent dose does the patient receive? The relative biological effectiveness (RBE) for these photons is 0.97 Assume that all of the Technetium-99 decays while in the body. [10 marks)