INVESTIGADORES
VALENTE Mauro Andres
artículos
Título:
A computational tool for evaluating the exposure risk in nuclear medicine treatments
Autor/es:
M VALENTE; F. MALANO; G. TIRAO
Revista:
International Journal of Low Radiation
Editorial:
Inderscience
Referencias:
Lugar: Paris; Año: 2010 vol. 7 p. 333 - 346
ISSN:
1477-6545
Resumen:
A computational tool was developed with the aim of evaluating
radiation exposure levels corresponding to patients and other exposed people,
such as medical staff or chaperones, during typical nuclear medicine
procedures. The calculation system is based on Monte Carlo subroutines
adapted from the code PENELOPE and devoted to perform energy deposition
according to the user-defined set-up. The computation tool offers a comfortable
and user-friendly graphic interface for results processing and visualisation.
Relevant procedure features, such as treatment room and facility, spatial
distribution, source and target phantom as well as radioisotope type, can be
easily introduced to the calculation code; this emphasises the versatility and
potential of the computational tool. The application of the developed system to
simple situations in nuclear medicine showed the reliability and feasibility of
the proposed method. The obtained exposure risk maps proved to be useful to
establish safe zones there where expositions do not exceed radioprotection
tolerances.