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3D-RD-S is intended to estimate radiation absorbed dose (and related quantities) to tissues after administration of a radioactive product. For use with internally administrated radioactive products, 3D-RD-S should not be used to deviate from product dosing and administrations. Refer to the product's prescribing information for instructions.

3D-RD-S is a cloud-based software as a medical device (SaMD) that interacts with the user via web browsers (for example Google Chrome). Users are trained healthcare professionals with significant dosimetry knowledge and experience and also responsible for the input of the appropriate values and to make correct interpretation of the output data. 3D-RD-S takes numerical input data in the form of activity in source tissues as a function of time (TAC data) or the integral of the activity (TIA data) in source tissues over time. It then calculates the absorbed dose to a set of target tissues based on the organ sizes and anatomies of a set of standard phantoms. The software provides the user the ability to account for the differences in tissue masses between the phantoms and the subject and model uncertainties in the input data. Calculation results can be viewed and updated by other users. The software provides the ability to calculate absorbed doses and related radiobiological quantities from input data. The calculations can be made for supported radionuclides based on data in the report 89 from the International Council on Radiation Protection (ICRP). Doses to target tissues are a function of the activity integrated over time (time-integrated activity. TIA) in a set of specified source organs. The software provides two modules for the integration of input time vs. activity curve (TAC) data. First, the user can use curve fitting methods to estimate a curve that passes through the TAC data from a set of supported fitting functions. Visual and numerical indicators of how well the fitting function works with the data are provided. Notifications are given if fitting parameters are non-physical. The TAC data can then be integrated using the fitting function, or by approximating the activity between measured time points with line and assuming activity after the last time-point decays with the radionuclide's physical half-life. If desired, the user can use a combination of the curve fit, linear interpolation between the lines, and exponentially decaying extrapolation based on the physical half-life, to integrate the time-activity curves. The calculated radiobiological quantities purport to relate physical dose to biological response and are dependent on the specification of radiobiological constants. The guantities supported include the whole-body effective dose and the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) weighted dose. The effective dose is calculated based on ICRP tissue weighting factors. The RBE weighted dose is calculated using user specified RBEs for the different radiation types (standard values are provided as defaults). 3D-RD-S provides total and individual dose estimates for the various particle types, i.e., alpha particles, beta (+ and -) particles, discrete electrons (e.g., Auger electrons), and photons (gamma and x-rays). The resulting doses are plotted in a bar graph and can, along with input data, be exported in a spreadsheet.