Auto shielding calculation in diagnostic X-ray rooms

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Σαββάκης, Σταύρος
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Savvakis, Stavros
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: 2023
• Θέματα: Radiation shielding; Radiation protection; GUI; Auto-calculation; Python; Pandas - Python Data Analysis Library

Every room with radiation needs to be shielded to limit radiation exposure to employees and members of the public to an acceptable level. Medical physicists and specialists in radiation shielding must calculate the necessary thickness of materials in every barrier in rooms with radiation. The task of the software is to calculate the shielding of X-Ray rooms. The software can calculate the thickness of every barrier in the room with the material chosen by the user to shield a specific barrier. To achieve this, the user must collect all the necessary data, the least distance of every barrier, occupancy factor, workload, use factor etc. The design of radiation shielding for diagnostic installation can be approached in several different ways. There are two common approaches to calculate the thickness of the shielding material: NCRP report 147 and British Institute of Radiology (BIR) report – Radiation Shielding for diagnostic X rays. For this thesis used NCRP report. Most of the definitions of the thesis and all DATA come from NCRP report 147. At the end of the thesis, most of the examples of NCRP 147 have been used to test the results of the program.