Renewing the radiopharmaceutical accuracy check service for Canadian radionuclide calibrators. (March 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Galea, R.; Gameil, K.
• Is Part Of: Applied radiation and isotopes. Volume 109(2016:Mar.)
• Page Start: 254
• Page End: 256
• Publication Date: 2016-03
• Subjects: Quality assurance -- Radionuclide ionization chambers -- Hospital radionuclide calibrators; Radiology -- Periodicals; Radiation -- Industrial applications -- Periodicals; Nuclear chemistry -- Periodicals; Internet resource; Periodical; 660.298
• DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2015.11.068
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0969-8043

Abstract

Abstract: From 1986 to 2000, a fraction of the Canadian nuclear medicine community participated in a service offered by the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada to check the accuracy of administered doses of radiopharmaceuticals. The NRC renewed this service in recent years with a revalidation and reviving of the Secondary Standard Ionizing Radiation Chamber System (SSIRCS). The NRC conducted mock services for 99 m Tc, in varying geometries (syringes and serum vials), on two NRC commercial radionuclide calibrators, and at a nuclear medicine department in Canada. These tests showed the measured doses to be within 10% of the prepared standard but in some cases were sufficiently different from unity to warrant specific geometry factors to be derived. Highlights: NRC Canada has revived a dose calibrator service for Canadian nuclear medicine. A mock service was performed at a Canadian facility testing 99m Tc. Three geometries tested in seven radionuclide calibrators, including two at the NRC.