Site requirements
Shielding, power, cooling, mechanical — what the room must provide.
15 entries
5-Gauss Line
Boundary around an MRI magnet where the fringe field drops below 5 Gauss (0.5 mT). Below 5 Gauss is generally considered safe for cardiac…
Ceiling Reinforcement (Cath Labs / DR)
Ceiling-mounted imaging equipment — cath lab gantries, DR tubes, surgical booms, hybrid OR equipment — requires structural ceiling…
Chilled Water Loops
CT, MRI, linac, and high-power interventional X-ray require chilled-water supply for gradient / klystron / generator / tube cooling. The…
Cyclotron Vault (PET Tracer Production)
The shielded vault that houses a medical cyclotron for on-site production of short-half-life PET radiopharmaceuticals — primarily F-18 FDG…
Emergency Power
Critical imaging rooms (ED CT, trauma CT, cath labs, linacs, ICU portable workflow) are typically on hospital emergency power —…
Floor Load Reinforcement
Heavy imaging equipment often exceeds standard hospital floor capacity. Structural engineering survey is required before install planning;…
Helium Logistics (MRI Cryogen Supply)
The cryogen-supply workstream supporting conventional cryogen-cooled MRI magnets — vendor relationship, periodic top-off scheduling,…
HVAC Load
Imaging rooms generate substantial heat that must be removed by dedicated air-conditioning. Hospital house HVAC is rarely sufficient;…
Lead Shielding (X-ray rooms)
Required for every X-ray-producing room in clinical use. Thickness and configuration vary by beam energy, workload, and adjacent-occupancy…
Linac Vault Shielding
The shielded room enclosing a clinical linear accelerator — a fundamentally different engineering problem from diagnostic-X-ray lead…
MRI Vibration Isolation
The structural-engineering layer that isolates the MRI magnet from external mechanical vibration — a requirement that becomes more…
Power Requirements
Imaging equipment power demands span three orders of magnitude — from a 20A C-arm circuit to a 200+ kVA linac service. Power quality…
Quench Pipe (MRI)
Non-negotiable MRI safety feature. Routes helium boil-off from a quench to outside air. Sized to vent rapidly-expanding helium — 1 L…
Radiopharmaceutical Hot Lab
The dedicated room where radioactive pharmaceuticals are received, calibrated, dispensed, and prepared for patient injection — a…
RF Shielding (Faraday Cage)
Required for MRI installs to prevent external radiofrequency from entering the magnet room. The magnet's receive coils detect the very…