Dinushi S. Perera MD, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Tanya Weston, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

Gary Stuart Greene MD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

1. To familiarize residents with the instrumentation encountered in a nuclear medicine practice through photographs taken in our department. 2. To review routine quality assurance measures for instrumentation. 3. To discuss safe handling and transportation of radioactive materials.

Instrumentation and routine quality assurance 1. Geiger-Muller counter 2. Radionuclide dose calibrator     a. Constancy checked daily     b. Linearity checked quarterly         i. Decay method         ii. Shield method, i.e. Calicheck system 3. Scintillation well counter and uptake probe 4. Gamma camera     a. Field uniformity assessed daily by obtaining a flood image         i. Extrinsic assessment (collimator attached)         ii. Intrinsic assessment (on the crystal face, without a collimator)     b. Spatial resolution and linearity assessed weekly 5. Rotating gamma camera / Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)     a. Center of rotation     b. SPECT phantoms 6. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) camera 7. Intraoperative probes   Safe handling and transportation of radioactive materials 1. Radioactivity labels 2. Transportation index

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Perera, D, Weston, T, Greene, G, When Things Get Hot: A Resident Primer on Instrumentation, Quality Assurance, and Safety Measures in Nuclear Medicine.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14006721.html