Inspecting Radiology Shields Using Passive RFID

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20150241364A1
SERIAL NO

14431988

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A method for locating/identifying and inspecting radiology shields to facilitate the safe use thereof is carried out by providing a set of radiology shields, each of the radiology shields having a unique identifier, and each of the radiology shields carrying a passive RFID tag, the passive RFID tag associated with the unique identifier; providing a central database, the database comprising common data and individual shield data; transmitting the common data and individual shield data for at least shields to be inspected to a portable RFID reader; identifying, with the portable RFID reader, shields to be inspected based on the inspection time interval and the data of last inspection; entering a determination of pass or fail inspection into the portable RFID reader for each of the shields to be inspected; and updating the central database individual shield data for each of the shields to be inspected from the portable RFID reader.

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UNIV WAKE FOREST HEALTH SCIENCESNot Provided

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Grogan, Eugene Stuart Lexington, US 1 0
Noel, Ronald A Clemmons, US 1 0

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