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Measurement Good Practice Guide No. 93
Protocol for Establishing and Maintaining the Calibration of
Medical Radionuclide Calibrators and their Quality Control
Prepared by a joint working party composed of representatives from the following:
Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
Ionising Radiation Metrology Consultants Ltd
National Physical Laboratory
R GADD (1) (Chairman), M BAKER (2) (Secretary), K S NIJRAN (3), S OWENS (4),
W THOMSON (5), M J WOODS (6) and F ZANANIRI (7)
(1) University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 7LN
(2) National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW
(3) Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS
(4) North Western Medical Physics, Christie Hospital, Manchester, M20 4BX
(5) Sandwell and West Midlands Hospital Trust, Birmingham, West Midlands, B18 7QH
(6) Ionising Radiation Metrology Consultants Ltd, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW
(7) Bristol General Hospital, Bristol, Avon, BS1 6SY
ABSTRACT
Guidance is given on the quality controls that should be undertaken on a routine basis for
medical radionuclide calibrators to ensure the accuracy and traceability of measurements of
the activities of radiopharmaceuticals. Sources of error and magnitudes of associated
uncertainties are discussed.