Commissioning of New Irradiating Equipment or New Radioactive Source

  1. ensuring that the purchase of medical equipment in all department fall within the scope of services is in accordance with specifications.
  2. providing a pre-screening technical evaluation report of all new equipment in related department as part of a complete report for equipment certificate of accreditation

Periodic checks on PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) such as lead aprons, goggles, thyroid shields and gonad shields.

Quality Control Test

  1. performing quality control tests on each specific equipment (Irradiating & Non-Irradiating equipment) in accordance with regulations prescribed by the procedures, in line with ISO requirements.

Coordinator of safety & security management for radioactive source.

Provide radiation measurement for medical officers and other staff whose involved in the injection procedure of radiopharmaceutical (Tc – 99m Sulfur Colloid) to sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) patients.

  1. Provide high dose and low dose Radioiodine-131 therapy services to patient.
  2. Provide radiation measurement service for Yttrium-90 Sirtex microspheres treatment procedures.
  3. Radiation Decontamination of Room & Equipment.
  4. Provide treatment planning by using software such as iPlan® and Eclipse and calculate doses based on the plans as prescribed by physicians for the treatment offered by the Department of Clinical Oncology, such as :
    1. Stereotactic Radiosurgery/ Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRS/SRT)
    2. Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)
    3. CT-Aided Image Guided Intracavitary Brachytherapy (IGBT)
  5. Assisting physicians to provide appropriate technical approach to be used in medical examination.
  6. Assisting in the preparation of work procedures for the use of equipment at UMMC with physics approach.
  7. Acting as technical advisor for the installation works and non-imaging equipment in the department/unit which using the radiation sources.
  8. In charge of radiation protection program at UMMC and teaching of medical students and radiography students on medical physics and radiation safety.