Tracerco T404 for people working with radiation in both nuclear medicine and research environments.
The Tracerco T404 personal electronic dosimeter, which is now available in the UK from LabLogic Systems, is proving to be effective in improving the safety of personnel working with radiation in both nuclear medicine and research environments.
Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood Hertfordshire, for example, is using the T404 to record exposure to all kinds of radiation sources, from iodine patients to PET scanners.
The data collected is then displayed as a graph, which makes it possible to identify the areas and procedures where staff are most vulnerable.
The hospital's radiation protection adviser Janis Brown said: "With its minute by minute breakdown of the wearer's dose, the Tracerco T404 does what a modern PED should do; you can just put it on and forget about it.
"Afterwards it's very easy to retrieve the data in the right format.
In fact the whole business of using it is so intuitive that you hardly need to read the manual." Similar benefits have been experienced in research applications.
One UK university tracked radiation exposure during a cell labelling procedure, pin-pointing instances of high exposure and measuring the degree to which the member of staff was complying with good laboratory practice.
