title: Reproducibility of operator processing for radiation dosimetry.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of California at Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento 95816, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: DeNardo
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: DeNardo
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: DeNardo
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Lamborn
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D003301:Copper Radioisotopes