Evaluation of a new secondary dose calculation software. The joint commission changed its rules for credentialing facilities by now requiring doserecording software so facilities can get a handle on doses used and how to reign in highdose outliers. How to calculate x ray dose using mas and kv without using. The dose rate to air is the energy fluence rate mev, cm2, s1 times the mass energy absorption coefficient for air cm2g. Radiation risk assessment tool radrat the radiation risk assessment tool radrat is an online calculator for estimating the lifetime risk of cancer incidence for members of the u. Thanks to its cad geometry import module, 3d modeling of components, subsystems or satellite structures has never been this easy.
Presentation on software for ct dose assessment publication ctexpo a novel program for dose evaluation in ct in german, abstract in english. Shielding beta particles example calculation 23 absorbed dose rate rx uend mass energy absorption coeffi cients apply to single photon energies but bremsstrahlung photons have a range of energies. Dosemonitor provides immediate enterprisewide visibility into patient dose exposure for multiple modalities and pacs systems. Tools for calculating radiation dose and risk radiation protection. Radiation dose calculator for android free download and. Manual internal radiation dose assessment is a complicated. In minutes, an email alerts you if any issues are detected in the four verified areas. Were the first in the world to develop precision dosing software dosemerx developed specifically for clinical practice to optimize dosing and streamline operations, reduce adverse drugs events, decrease costs and improve patient outcomes. Epas sciencebased tools help radiation protection professionals calculate radiation dose and risk risk the probability of injury, disease or death from exposure to a hazard. An individual software license allows installation onto one machine only. Central to the planning of radiation therapy for cancer treatment is the calculation of radiation dose delivered to a patient. Fetal radiation exposure was calculated for 304 cases in 218 pregnant women with gestational ages ranging from 5 days to 19 weeks, 2 days. Mercurad 3d simulation software for dose rate calculation.
The software was originally called nukeworker calculator. Users can specify their own parameter values and apply sophisticated data handling techniques to their. The program has phantom libraries which permit the calculation of these doses for individuals of different age and size and for women at. Software to help manage medical imaging radiation dose. The radiation protection computer code analysis and. Cdc niosh radiation dose reconstruction integrated. Dcal software and resources radiation protection us epa. Here you have to enter the values of kv 60, ma 10, filtration 3 mm al and distance 100 cm from the target to the point of. The development of vmc dose calcuation began in 1999 in the ird, and the current version was released in 2005.
Unit converter for radiation dose units dose calculation programs. These quantities are relevant in calculating radiation e. Before the examination starts, radiologists may include in their appropriateness assessment the dosimetric history of the patients, especially those who need to repeatedly undergo. We are exposed to radiation from materials in the earth itself, from naturally occurring radon in the air, from outer space, and from inside our own bodies as a result of the food and water we consume. Overall, the new secondary software has better agreement with the tps than the commercially available secondary calculation software over a range of. Absorbed dose and dose equivalent calculations for. Dcal, the dose and risk calculation software, has been used in the development of two federal guidance reports federal guidance reports 12 and and by the international commission on radiological protection icrp in the computation of agespecific dose coefficients for members of the public icrp publications 1989, 1993, 1995a, 1995b, 1996.
Combined with mim softwares industryleading imaging and registration tools, the addition of an advanced monte carlo dose calculation algorithm will provide a leap forward in automating adaptive. We contacted hospitals in different cities in turkey where requests for fetal dose calculation are usually sent. Radiation dose monitoring software for medical imaging. The mirdose software has been popular for a number of years for calculating internal radiation dose estimates for radionuclides used in nuclear medicine. This software allows its users to decrease overall shielding mass and improve. Textbook radiation exposure in computed tomography software for ct dose assessment. Dose and risk calculation software dcal dcal is a comprehensive software system for the calculation of tissue dose and subsequent health risk from intakes of radionuclides or exposure to radionuclides present in environmental media. Radcalc automatically calculates in the background with independent algorithms whether irregularities or deviations are present. Radcalc is a qa software that checks the calculation of your treatment planning system, independently of manufacturer, quickly and precisely. Dcal has been used to support epa dose calculations since the early 1990s, with each subsequent version improving on the previous. A simple tps export triggers mobiuscalcs automatic 3d plan recalculation in the patient ct using independently verified beam models and a gpuaccelerated collapsedcone dose algorithm. Software for calculating dose and risk springerlink. A software for automatic calculation of radiation dose to. Radioactive materials deliver internal radiation dose to patients in nuclear medicine.
This method uses the radpro calculator available free online. The radiation protection computer code analysis and maintenance program ramp the nrc initiated the radiation protection computer code analysis and maintenance program ramp for the development, maintenance, and distribution of the nrcs vast array of radiation protection, dose assessment, and emergency response computer codes. The use of radiation dose monitoring software may improve the collection, analysis and reporting of radiation dose data compared with current manual or semiautomated methods. It has conversions, decay, upu grams, inverse square law and gamma doserate. With respect to the secondary dose calculation dependency on average calculation depth, the kendalls tau correlation test showed that a moderate tau 322, and weak tau 217 inverse correlation exists between calculated dose discrepancy from the tps and calculation depth for the new secondary dose calculation software and the.
The sites xrayrisk or radar medical procedure radiation dose calculator offer the possibility of estimating patient doses for commonly conducted examination. Dcal is a comprehensive software system for the calculation of tissue dose and subsequent health risk from intakes of radionuclides or exposure. Patient dose calculation software in nuclear medicine persian. Simply import the patient plans from your planning system. Once inside the body, the radioactive material accumulates in specific organs or tissues and delivers a radiation dose to those organs or tissues. Radar software radar the radiation dose assessment.
You can use this application only for academic purposes. Dosemerx is a unique software platform that enables. Dose monitoring software for the radiologic team daytoday automatic dose monitoring systems can be helpful during all the phases of radiologic procedures. The radiation dose management channel includes information of radiation dose recording software, realtime staff dose monitoring, regulatory compliance and technology to reduce dose, including interative reconstruction software. Internal dose is the radiation dose received as a result of radioactive materials entering the body through either inhalation, ingestion or absorption.
The current model used to predict dose and dose equivalent is a particle transport code called hzetrn. Our suite of secondcheck software is utilized worldwide by medical physicists, dosimetrists, and radiation therapists. The olindaexm personal computer code for calculating organ doses and effective doses in nuclear medicine studies was developed in 2004. Determining and managing fetal radiation dose from.
Rad pro calculator online performs many nuclear calculations that are useful to the health physicist, radiological researcher, radiochemist, radiation safety officer, health physics technician hp and other professionals in radiation physics and radiological engineering. Review of fetal dose calculation techniques xray, fluoroscopy, ct, nuclear medicinepet provide material to develop discussion points for women that may need to be imaged while pregnant that have been imaged while pregnant take home message icrp 84 pregnancy and medical radiation. The detailed information provided by dose monitoring software allows for the best image quality possible while minimising radiation exposure to the patient. The gamma doserate calculator has a limited list of isotopes, no shielding calculations and uses the ruleofthumb ci6cen formula rather than the sophisticated fluencerate formulas used by versions 2.
In this work, we evaluate a new secondary calculation software which utilizes an innovative method to handle nonstandard gamma angles and image thresholding to render the skull for dose calculation. Target dose, dvh limits, 3d gamma, and deliverability. This software allows its users to decrease overall shielding mass and improve equipments radiation hardness. A software for automatic calculation of radiat ion dose to patients from radiopharmaceuticals author block. Olindaexm, which stands for organ level internal dose assessmentexponential modeling, calculates radiation doses to different organs of the body from systemically administered radiopharmaceuticals and performs regression analysis on usersupplied. Dcal software and resources dcal is designed for use on a personal computer or scientific work station by users with experience in scientific computing and computational radiation dosimetry. However, in order to measure internal exposure, personal computer software can be used to calculate the absorbed dose in various organ tissues. Effective dose is a dose quantity in the international commission on radiological protection icrp system of radiological protection it is the tissueweighted sum of the equivalent doses in all specified tissues and organs of the human body and represents the stochastic health risk to the whole body, which is the probability of cancer induction and genetic effects, of low levels of ionising. It can calculate dose and dose rates for many radioactive isotopes such as co.