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Development of a software for radiopharmaceutical management in nuclear medicine

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Treballs Finals de Grau d'Enginyeria Biomèdica. Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut. Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2021-2022. Directora/Tutora: Aida Niñerola Baizán.

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Radiopharmaceuticals are radioactive drugs injected intravenously into patients for diagnostic
imaging and therapeutic treatments in nuclear medicine. To achieve an accurate interpretation of
the results or a correct therapeutic effect, these medicines must be strictly supervised by the
radiopharmacy department from the moment their raw material arrives at the hospital until its
administration to the patient.
This project aims to develop an user-friendly and efficient software that integrates all processes
involved in the radiopharmaceutical management of the Unitat de Radiofàrmacia de l’Hospital
Clínic which are currently stored in independent Excel documents leading to human errors and
complex dose traceabilities. At present, some software is available on the market, but they are too
expensive and none of them fulfils all their requested demands. To develop the application, several
programming options were evaluated. Finally, the software was developed from scratch in an opensource
Python environment, Anaconda. It is mainly based on Tkinter and SQLite packages for
creating graphical interface and database communications, respectively. Unfortunately, the
external connections with activimeters and the SAP platform did not succeed due to time limitations,
lack of knowledge and incompatibility. At last, the prototype was evaluated and the feedback from
three radiopharmacists was collected after testing it.
As the software was built from zero, its main advantage is being modelled based on all the
radiopharmacy’s demands. Although it fulfils currently most of their requirements, there are still
necessary improvements to reach its full potential. Besides, it could encourage other hospital
departments to introduce hospital information systems.

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cc-by-nc-nd (c) Martínez Ruiz, Beatriz, 2022

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Treballs Finals de Grau (TFG) - Enginyeria Biomèdica

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Development of a software for radiopharmaceutical management in nuclear medicine