The RS Designer software has been developed by 511 to aid users in designing radiation shielding for simple and complex floor plans in a matter of minutes.

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– Select your floor plan image.
– Add radiation sources and apparatus. Sources can be uniform point sources or complex CT dose distribution maps.
– Add walls by tracing over the floor plan.
– Calculate the ambient dose distribution.

Quickly modify and adjust radiation source and shielding properties to reduce turn around and analysis time.
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Watch this 2 minute video to see RS Designer in action

Can’t see the video below? Click here for the direct YouTube link.

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But how do I…?

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PET/CT Example

This demonstration utilises an example of a clinical PET/CT facility layout taken from Establishing a PET/CT Practice.

AAPM Task Group 108: PET and PET/CT Shielding Requirements by The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) would also be considered essential reading before under taking any shielding design of a PET facility.

We can see that undertaking shielding design of a PET/CT or Nuclear Medicine facility is increasingly complicated due to the numerous radiation sources. Introduce other factors associated with these facilities such as radiopharmaceutical half-life, staff/patient occupancy factors, complex room layouts and it is easy to see the benefits in seeing the ambient dose.
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CT Example

This demonstration utilises the example of a dedicated CT imaging centre given at the 2010 conferences of ARPS and ACPSEM.
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X-Ray Example

This demonstration utilises the example of a Dedicated Chest Unit given in the NCRP Report No. 147, Structural Shielding Design for Medical X-Ray Imaging Facilities.
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