Visual Inspection
Visual inspection is one of the essential checks to ensure the quality and safety of parental pharmaceutical products. The aim is to determine whether there are any visible particles within the drug. In Nuclear Medicine, it is usually performed with the naked eye, by a specially trained operator and using specific techniques.
In most cases, it is therefore an immediate check, which is rather simple to carry out.
In the presence of radiopharmaceuticals, however, the visual inspection process is much more complex. The need to protect the operator from radiation by means of shielding, leaded glass and the use of tele-pliers, makes the visual check of radioactive drugs much more complicated; to the point of sometimes compromising the final result of the check itself.
Visual inspection system in a shielded environment
VI was created to respond to these critical issues and enable steady and well-characterised visual inspection processes to be performed on radiopharmaceuticals contained in vials, without compromising operators safety.
It is in fact a system consisting of an indoor unit, positioned inside the hotcell, and a high-resolution monitor that allows the operator to view the vial in complete safety.