History, organization, and oversight of the accredited dosimetry calibration laboratories by the AAPM
Conference
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OSTI ID:250220
- St. James Hospital and Health Centers, Chicago Heights, IL (United States)
For more than 20 years, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) has operated an accreditation program for secondary standards laboratories that calibrate radiation measuring instruments. Except for one short period, that program has been able to provide the facilities to satisfy the national need for accurate calibrations of such instruments. That exception, in 1981, due to the combination of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requiring instrument calibrations by users of cobalt-60 teletherapy units and the withdrawal of one of the three laboratories accredited at that time. However, after successful operation as a Task Group of the Radiation Therapy Committee (RTC) of the AAPM for two decades, a reorganization of this structure is now under serious consideration by the administration of the AAPM.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 250220
- Report Number(s):
- PNL--10076; CONF-9303220--; ON: DE96008816
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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