Radiation safety and health physics

Shielding design

Periodic checks

The design of effective radiation barriers represents the main safety guard for workers, population and environment. It is an extremely delicate task that requests the full understanding of the subject matter and represents a continuous challenge, with particular attention to optimisation, aimed at reaching the best result with the minimum economic and environmental impact.

Weather it is a simple plant of diagnostic radiology, a bunker equipped for radiotherapy, nuclear medicine department, research lab or another facility with industrial machines and resources, Radiation and Robotic implements the best professionist and experience grown over decades.

All radiation sources require a systematic verify of the security measures, carried out by professional staff with sophisticated measurement equipment.

It appears to be even more relevant when the sources are variable over time, whether we treat with variable radioactive substances or the radiation coming from devices capable of generating electromagnetic radiation or various accelerated particles.

If your work exposes you at risk of radiation exposure Radiation and Robotic is able to supply the adequate technical and operational support that guarantees safety and protection according to the highest standards.

X-Guardian

Radiation safety is a complex system consisting of many legislative, technical, logistics and professional contributions. Radiation protection’s philosophy is an exemplary approach to security and safety, which has been recognized and imitated in many other areas for workers safety and protection of people and environment .

In order to technical areas, the availability of new technology offers simple and cost-effective solutions in many safety fields. The skill of the IoT (Internet of Things) devices to interact with the web offers many possibilities, which multiply greatly the provision of security means.

The X-Guardian Project, developed by Radiation and Robotic, is a family of electronics devices that monitoring the radiations safety conditions in workplaces and for individual workers.

All information gathered by X-Guardian can be stored and subsequently treated, including for statistical purposes.

The field of application are manifold:

Radiation Safety in Hospitals
Research Centers
Industry
Safety of health workers in ambulances
Security checks
Security borders
Moreover, many others!

ERMES

ERMES (Electronic Remote Module Messenger to Enhanced Safety) is an access control system for radio exposure risk areas, able to detect radiation fields and to wirelessly and remotely communicate the information outside of the controlled areas.

Operating room, where wire signs are impossible to instal, is a typical example of ERMES use. The installation of ERMES is very simple.

The device is equipped with entry plug connector that is connected to the socket on the x-ray unit.

When ERMES is powered, a signal is sent wirelessly to tablet with an specific app that may be placed in the operating room and informs the users on the radiation risk zone. The information about the radiation emission is transferred in real time to the tablet which decodes and reports it and memorises the weekly exposure time.

Interventional Radiology

In recent years interventional radiology has taken a fundamental role in many surgical procedures, given also more common use of non invasive surgical techniques which are less risky and reduce recovery time.

Besides the advantages there is a significant increase in doses absorbed by the professionals who, in most cases, are forced to perform a surgery closely with the patient who is the main source of radiation. During the surgery the surgeon observes the images on the screen of the radiological device which often stays on even during downtime without providing any diagnosis.

The solution offered by Radiation and Robotic consists in a device applicable to the surgeon's glasses, even on the shielding lenses, that allows the viewing of radiological images coming from a mobile device enabling an immediate vision overlapped on the actual imagine of the patient. This solution may contribute to a significant reduction of the dose absorbed both by patient and by the surgical workers and to cutting and optimising intervention time.

Dose simulator

In interventional radiology, workers can absorb doses higher than those that characterize work in the nuclear industry.
Correct training is extremely important to know the exposure methods and the correct techniques to reduce the dose to the patient and operators.
For this reason, Radiation and Robotic has created a graphic application for Android that allows to evaluate the dose to workers, represented by simple icons that can be moved around the operating table, attributing in real time the relative dose-rate, even in the presence of devices. of protection such as the lead apron. A great opportunity for interactive learning!