A new method for calculating structural radiation protection in nuclear medical imaging
Stefan Schwan, Arbia Khezami, Janina Hohnholz, Christoph Lerche and N. Jon Shah
3rd July 2022
Scientists from INM-4 have developed a software tool to provide the calculation routines for structural radiation protection from positron and gamma emitters used in nuclear medical imaging, for example, in PET measurements using 18F.
The aim of the project was to establish an accurate way along the technical standard to calculate the local dose in the vicinity of a radioactive source and to present the calculated results in an intuitive way to support the engineering of the structural measures necessary to meet regulatory guidelines.
The proposed software, termed RadSoft, was successfully used to develop the structural radiation protection of a controlled area for hybrid MR-PET imaging, with a focus on the requirements for PET.

Original publication: A software-based approach for calculating spatially resolved radiation exposure for structural radiation protection in nuclear medical imaging