PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Zhai, Weihao
AU  - Yu, wanjun
AU  - xi, jiadong
AU  - He, Wei
TI  - <strong>The utility of Automatic Dispenser in Nuclear Medicine</strong>
DP  - 2015 May 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine
PG  - 1169--1169
VI  - 56
IP  - supplement 3
4099  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/56/supplement_3/1169.short
4100  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/56/supplement_3/1169.full
SO  - J Nucl Med2015 May 01; 56
AB  - 1169 Objectives Radionuclide has been widely applied in nuclear meidicine. Previously, Staff in nuclear medicine department diapensed and diluted the radiopharmaceutical manually, leading to a low dispensing accuracy and a worse radiation protection. The aim of this study is to find a solution to improve the dispensing accuracy and lower the radiation exposure .Methods 4 staff were involved in this study using the same radiopharmaceutical (18F-FDG)，and they injected the same number of patients(80 every month)with the same inject dose (10mCi). 8 months (from 2013.June to 2014.January)data before using automatic dispenser were placed in Group 1 and 8 months (from 2014.Febuary to 2014.September)data after using automatic dispenser were placed in Group 2. Individual exposure dose were recorded every 2 months. The actual injected radioisotope dose of each patient were measured and the dispensing deviation were calculated.Results The individual radiation dose of Group 1 was 353.55μSv，365.9μSv ，348.58μSv and 384.93μSv ，respectively，while，the dose of Group 2 is 71.78μSv ，83.68μSv ，79.35μSv and 72.7μSv ，respectively，Statistics showed there was significant difference between two Groups，Group 2 was much lower than Group 1. The mean dispensing deviation of Group 1 is 3.986% and Group 2 is 1.211% , which has significant difference.Conclusions Automatic Dispenser can be a good solution to lower the radiation exposure ，which is easy to operate and has high dispensing speed , The automatic dispenser should be promoted to more nuclear medicine department.