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A Pervasive System for Nuclear Medicine Department

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Pervasive Computing technologies can be successfully adopted in designing smart and enhanced healthcare services and applications. Within a typical healthcare institution, one particular facility which can greatly benefit from pervasive technologies is the Nuclear Medicine Department, where nuclear medicine diagnostic tests like PET scan and nuclear scintigraphy are routinely carried out involving the use of radioactive substances. This paper presents a pervasive healthcare system which is intended to support clinicians in handling nuclear medicine test sessions within an appropriate, safety-aware context. The proposed system also includes features to easily interoperate with heterogeneous software and databases already present in traditional hospitals. Its design lies on a methodology which integrates RFID and photoelectric sensor technologies. An experimental prototype has been implemented and tested showing the feasibility of the system in a real healthcare facility.

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  1. Italian National Research Council, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, ICAR, Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy

    Gennaro Della Vecchia & Massimo Esposito

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Della Vecchia, G., Esposito, M. A Pervasive System for Nuclear Medicine Department. Wireless Pers Commun 55, 105–120 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-009-9789-x

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