Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine (대한디지털의료영상학회논문지)

The Korean Society for Digital Imaging in Medicine (대한디지털의료영상학회)
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Analysis on Failure Statistics of Cyclotron Component

사이클로트론 구성부품별 고장통계분석

  • 조준호 (케어캠프(주)-영남대학교병원) ;
  • 정재은 (대구보건대학교 방사선과) ;
  • 정홍문 (대구보건대학교 방사선과) ;
  • 원도연 (대구보건대학교 방사선과)
  • Received : 2014.01.03
  • Accepted : 2013.07.07
  • Published : 2014.07.30
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Abstract

The demand of cyclotron for PET (positron emission tomography) has rapidly grown as the more use of PET or PET-CT equipment requires the increased amount of radioactive isotopes for clinical positron emission. While research on failure statistics of medical equipment used in medical centers has continued to be done, the analysis and study on failure statistics of cyclotron have rarely been conducted. However, the growing demand shows the urgency of systematical management guideline and countermeasures for device failure to minimize any supply delay of radiopharmaceuticals occurred by such failure and complains from waiting patients for PET-CT diagnosis. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the failure report from Minitrace equipped in cyclotron which is owned by the department of nuclear medicine at Yeungnam University Medical Center and draws on the data to build effective management system for cyclotron.

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