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Researchers of the Telematics Engineering group of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) and specialists of the Radiofisica and radiological protection service of the Santa Lucía Hospital have developed a device that allows improving the safety of professionals working with radiological equipment and the sanitary installation .
It is a technological solution that allows to measure in real time the dose of radiation and send the information to any mobile device and at the same time send to a database to be analyzed.
The project was recently published by the prestigious scientific magazine "Sensors".
The device has been validated in the calibration laboratory of the National Dosimetry Center of Valencia.
In addition, the device has already been used in the Hospital Santa Lucia in radiological surveillance in the services of Nuclear Medicine and Image for Diagnosis.
The systems currently do not store the information but have alert levels that trigger when they exceed a security level but there is no knowledge of what has happened.
The system consists of a Geiger-Muller (GM) radiation detector connected to an electronic device that sends information through 3G, Ethernet or Wifi technology to a central server to which any electronic device can be connected from anywhere.
The project is part of the collaboration between the research group Telematics Engineering, which includes Professor Antonio Javier García, and the team of Radiofísica del Santa Lucía, directed by Alfredo Serna.
They also have the support of General Electric Healthcare.
Source: UPCT
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