title: Performance evaluation of commercial radionuclide calibrators in Indonesian hospitals.
abstract: Dose calibrator is one of the supporting equipments in the field of nuclear medicine. At the hospitals, dose calibrator is used for activity measurement of radiopharmaceutical before it is administered to patients. Comparison of activity measurements of (131)I and (99m)Tc with dose calibrators was organized in Indonesia during 2007-2010 with the the aim of obtaining information dose calibrator performance in the hospitals. Seven Indonesian hospitals participated in this comparison. The measurement results were evaluated using the E(n) criteria. The result presented in this paper facilitated the evaluation of dose calibrator performance at several hospitals.
authors.affiliation: Center for Technology of Radiation Safety and Metrology, National Nuclear Energy Agency, P.O. Box 7043-JKSKL, Jakarta Selatan 12070, Indonesia. hermawan@batan.go.id
authors.forename: Hermawan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Candra
authors.forename: Pujadi
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marsoem
authors.forename: Gatot
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wurdiyanto
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007214:Indonesia; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000032:analysis* / Q000592:standards*; D011874:Radiometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D011868:Radioisotopes