Abstract
In this work, a user-friendly Java-based open-source software has been developed for internal radiation dosimetry. Based on values published by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), the software calculates the estimated absorbed dose for each organ and also the estimated effective dose, this for about forty of the most known radioactive drugs. In addition, the present software offers many features which include: 1) a very friendly graphical user-interface (GUI) designed to facilitate the process of selecting mandatory input data such as radiopharmaceutical product, administered activity and patient's data, 2) a tool for generating a medical report, which can be exported as PDF file or printed directly and then incorporated into the patient's record, 3) a SQLite database for storing patient's specific and dosimetric data. We believe that the present software can be a useful tool for nuclear medicine workers. It is freely available for download on GitHub (https://github.com/EL-Bakkali-Jaafar/RadioPharmaDose).
Highlights
As is well-known, a radiopharmaceutical product is typically a radioactive drug used clinically either in diagnostics use or in therapeutic use and typical quantities given are chosen to provide adequate medical image quality while maintaining radiation doses to reasonable levels
This work offers a such solution; it is about an open-source Java-based software and can be run on multiple platforms, which thanks to its friendly graphical user interface the calculation of dosimetric data with respect of the patient’s specific and dosimetric data is made easy
By using concerned Java APIs we have developed this open-source software from scratch by using Netbeans IDE
Summary
Publishers note: The publisher wishes to inform readers that the article “RadioPharmaDose, a Javabased open-source software for estimating and reporting internal radiation doses” was originally published by the previous publisher of Applied Computing and Informatics and the pagination of this article has been subsequently changed. There has been no change to the content of the article This change was necessary for the journal to transition from the previous publisher to the new one. To access and cite this article, please use EL Bakkali, J., Mansouri, H., Doudouh, A. (2020), “RadioPharmaDose, a Java-based open-source software for estimating and reporting internal radiation doses”, Applied Computing and Informatics. The original publication date for this paper was 06/06/2018
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