Absorbed Dose ALERT Software Upgrade for Captus 3000 and 4000e Thyroid Uptake System

After a large scale release of radioactive material, internal contamination due to inhalation is a potential health concern. A critical public health challenge is to provide an initial field screening to rapidly triage and identify individuals with significant amounts of internal contamination. Capintec is proud to announce a measurement solution to this challenge.

Captus® 4000e

Captus® 4000e Alert Software adds this valuable function to your Captus® 4000e system, providing dual functionality for both routine Thyroid Uptakes and emergency screening requirements. The Alert Program records patient demographic data, selects appropriate body type, measures and quantifies internal organ burden and and generates results in µCi-intake. Program includes intake data for both inhalation and ingestion. Results will be flagged when user defined trigger levels are exceeded. Collimated and shielded detector provides enhanced sensitivity. Can detect 1 ALI (Annual Limit of Intake) up to 30 days after intake within sixty seconds.

The Custom Protocol program, included with the Captus 4000e, supports customized measurements and calculations by integrating predefined measurement screens with Microsoft Excel® for analysis and report generation. This feature is ideal for post event data analysis. This product was developed using physical measurements on Capintec’s Captus® 4000e and computer modeling data developed at Georgia Institute of Technology with support and research funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Captus® 3000

The Captus 3000 software is a full service program with Thyroid Uptake, Wipe Testing, Bioassay, Schillings, Dicopac®, BloodVolume and RBC Survival functionality built in. The Wipe Test module has been a “New” feature that allows the flexibility of predefined or user defined groupings. The entire program has “Fly Over” control bars to allow quick access to whatever function is necessary. QA is of course completely automated and now includes a “New” feature for measuring Minimum Detectable Activity. With the use of the two included reference standards (Cs-137 and Eu-152) the system will move from Calibration to Constancy to Chi-square with limited time and effort.

There is a new and versatile 1024 Multichannel Analyzer (MCA) module that allows measurements of energies up to 2 MeV. The MCA module also has an isotope selection library with over 90 preloaded isotopes and adjustable ROI’s for easily reproducible counting parameters.