Development of RFID for Automatic Radiopharmaceuticals Preparation System 


Vol. 37,  No. 5, pp. 429-436, May  2012


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  Abstract

In this paper, an RFID system for the automatic preparation system of positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceuticals is developed. Since the preparation system uses radioactive isotope, the preparation system is generally placed in lead-shielded hot-cell. Disposable cassettes including tubes and valves are used in the preparation system, since they are easily contaminated by radioactivity during preparation of radiopharmaceuticals. Currently, a system for preventing re-use of the cassette and managing the information about the preparation precess and result independently from the PC which control the preparation system is highly required for preventing danger from the radiation accident. Since RFID can store and re-write relatively large amount of information, it is suitable for the purpose. However, it is hard to read multiple cassettes" information using antennas installed on the metallic surfaces with current RFID systems. For the problem, we improve RFID system in two directions. First, the interface of the RFID reader is changed then it is possible that multiple readers can be daisy-chained. Also, antenna is tuned while inserting in a metallic coated antenna case, then the effect from the metallic surface of the preparation system is minimized. The test result using the developed system shows that the developed RFID system can read multiple tags using the antennas which are attached on the metallic surface.

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[IEEE Style]

M. Kim and K. Kim, "Development of RFID for Automatic Radiopharmaceuticals Preparation System," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 429-436, 2012. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Myungsik Kim and Kwangsoo Kim. 2012. Development of RFID for Automatic Radiopharmaceuticals Preparation System. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 37, 5, (2012), 429-436. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Myungsik Kim and Kwangsoo Kim, "Development of RFID for Automatic Radiopharmaceuticals Preparation System," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 429-436, 5. 2012.