A STUDY USING VIRTUAL REALITY AS A SOURCE OF COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FOR NUCLEAR MEDICINE PATIENTS AND ITS RELATIVES

• Autor(a) principal: MENDONÇA, Sérgio F.
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: NASCIMENTO, Ana C. H., MOL, Antônio C. A., MARINS, Eugênio R., SUÍTA, Júlio C., Instituto de Engenharia Nuclear
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do IEN
• Texto Completo: http://carpedien.ien.gov.br:8080/handle/ien/2201
• topic: INAC 2017

This work consists in the research, analysis and unification of the guidelines transmitted to the patients and their relatives in the radioiodine therapy procedures. The goal is to provide greater understanding of the use of nuclear radiation and better understanding of treatment, to help patients better adapt to therapy, to demystify misconceptions about radiation use, and to improve care for their protection and for people close to them. Based on written and verbal information, collected in the scientific literature and in loco accompanying the routine of the therapeutic rooms of Nuclear Medicine Services in Rio de Janeiro, the set of actions that define scenarios experienced by radioiodine therapy patients and their helpers is being generated. Based on this information, a virtual environment is being developed in the Virtual Reality Laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear Engineering (IEN / CNEN), a virtual environment that will allow the visualization of the procedures and instructions passed to the patients by the SMN1 teams. With this virtual environment, the patient will be able to perform an immersive visualization and to experience the different phases of the treatment, increasing the chances of efficiency of their participation in the process.