deccribed.

The chair zeomecry detecets radioactive material iocated between the

neck and the knee.

The total system efficiencies are the same for the chair and

bed geometries.
3.

Quality Control

The quality control (QC) program consisted of a cross comparison
of che radionuclide amounts estimated to be in the phantom volume versus NBS cal-

ibration standards.

Agreement between the two activity concentrations is within

plus or minus 5% for all radionuclides.

Other quality control mechanisms

employed were repetitive counting of secondary point source standards, multiple
counts of Brookhaven personnel, repetitive counting of the Marshallese (blind
duplicates) and an intercomparison study.
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Two point sources were used in the QC program.

woe
137
Initially
Cs

source, which has been used by the BNL medical surveys in previous years, was
used to monitor potential changes in system resolution and efficiency as func.
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tion of time.

In subsequent years, a

137

Cs +

60

.
z
Co point source, was used for

zero, gain, resolution and efficiency determination.
Replicate counting of Marshallese was conducted on 5% of the
subjects.

Results indicate that the data obtained from the field whole body

counting system is reproducible to within plus or minus 6%.
error is due to variable subject position.

Almost all of this

When subjects remain stationary, the

difference between sequential results is plus or minus 12.
An intercomparison of whole body counting systems was conducted between the field system and the whole body counter operated by S$. Cohn for the
Brookhaven Medical Department.

Persons used in the study included 13

Marshallese with measurable 1376, body burdens plus several Brookhaven employees

with current whole body counting records at the Medical Department.

The results

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