Reproducibility of operator processing for radiation dosimetry.
Reproducibility of operator processing for radiation dose and biological half-life was assessed for radioimmunotherapy. Mean coefficient of variation for intra-operator consecutive processing and for inter-operator processing was less than 15% for all tissues. The mean coefficient of variation for intraoperator processing over 2 wk or inter-operator processing comparing an experienced and less experienced operator was generally greater, and particularly so for tumors. Satisfactory reproducibility was achievable using visual determination of regions of interests after 80 h of training.
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University of California at Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento 95816, USA.
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D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D003301:Copper Radioisotopes / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000532:radiotherapy; D015588:Observer Variation; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D016499:Radioimmunotherapy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
D003301:Copper Radioisotopes