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Performance characteristics of a commercially available whole body counting phantom measured experimentally and using
Gary H Kramer1, Barry M Hauck, Kevin Capello
1Human Monitoring Laboratory, Radiation Protection Bureau, 775 Brookfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 1C1. gary_h_kramer@hc-sc.gc.ca
Abstract:
The performance characteristics of a commercially available whole body counting phantom have been examined experimentally and using Monte Carlo simulations. The counting efficiency as a function of photon energy (126 keV to 2,754 keV) obtained using this phantom has been compared with those obtained using a real or virtual BOMAB phantom in a scanning detector and a FastScan whole body counter. The results suggest that the commercially available whole body counting phantom is equivalent to a BOMAB phantom under certain circumstances but that under other measurement conditions it may be necessary to develop correction factors.
