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Bruce Spencer
Phone: 506-444-0384
Fax: 506-444-6114
Email: Bruce.Spencer@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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Sharon Wahl
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Dose Registry and Radiation Exposure Monitor (REM)
Medical imaging technology has become an important diagnostic and therapeutic tool in patient care. With a rise in the use of medical tests such as diagnostic imaging by health-care professionals, it has become important to create a system to measure the impact of repeated, low-dose radiation on patients, especially its effect on children and radiation-sensitive organs.
In this project, NRC-IIT researchers and their partners are creating new ways to assess the cumulative amount of radiation to which a patient is exposed during their life time providing critical data that will help health-care professionals track an individual patient’s cumulative radiation exposure.
The project will lay the groundwork for the creation of an innovative national clinical radiation-exposure registry. This leading-edge registry will be the first of its kind in Canada and will be marketed to health-care providers worldwide. The registry will also support a wide range of scientific studies including the long-term effects of radiation on human health.
A multifaceted design approach will utilize expertise in diverse areas such as semantic web, data mining, and user-centered design. This project exemplifies the secondary use of clinical data in advancing medical knowledge to improve patient care and ensure patient safety in an increasingly sophisticated and complicated healthcare environment.
Please note, the radiation-exposure registry is currently a research project and is not open to the public. When it becomes active it will be administered by hospitals and health-care providers, not by NRC.
The start date of the project was October 2009 with a projected end-date of December 2011.
Project partners include:
- Agfa HealthCare Inc.
- Medical Imaging Informatics Research Centre at McMaster University (MIIRC@M)
- Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
