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Radiation Safety and Health Physics
 
The Health Physics Division of the Department of Nuclear Medicine has provided radiation safety support services to University at Buffalo affiliated hospitals and to other facilities in the Western New York area since 1972. These services include consultative audits, assistance with license preparation, radiation safety training, licensed instrumentation calibration, and sealed source leak testing. Currently, over 30 facilities are serviced including twenty nuclear medicine departments and four PET suites. During the academic year July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001, more than one hundred formal health physics audit inspections were conducted. Teaching responsibilities comprise a large part of the services provided by the Health Physics Division. Mr. Fast is the instructor for the two-credit course "Radiation Safety for Nuclear Medicine Technologists" (NMD 325) and also for the ongoing five-week non-credit course "Basic Radiation Safety Techniques" offered at various times throughout the year. The non-credit "Basic Radiation Safety Techniques" course is taught to all interested radiation and health care workers in the Western New York area.

Services:

  1. Semi-Annual and Quarterly Radioactive Materials License Audits
  2. Meter Calibration
  3. Semi-Annual Leaktesting
  4. Worker Dose From Aerosol/Xenon Calculations
  5. Sink Discharge Calculations
  6. Close Out Surveys
  7. Shielding Calculations
  8. SPECT/PET Acceptance Testing
  9. Well Counter Acceptance Testing
  10. Dose Calibrator Acceptance Testing
  11. Well Counter Efficiency and MDA Calculations
  12. Thyroid Bioassay (131I, 125I, 124I)
  13. Power Point slide programs and manuals available in Basic Radiation Safety and DOT HAZMAT training

NYS Licensed Contact:

Michael Hammersmith, MHP, DABSNM,
Licensed Medical and Nuclear Physicist (Lic.#000117)

Egon "Gene" W. Fast, M.Ed., C.N.M.T., Health Physicist

Phone:
(716) 838-5889

FAX:
(716) 838-4918

   
   

 

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Last updated: February 16, 2006