Multibiodose radiation emergency triage categorization software.
In this note, the authors describe the MULTIBIODOSE software, which has been created as part of the MULTIBIODOSE project. The software enables doses estimated by networks of laboratories, using up to five retrospective (biological and physical) assays, to be combined to give a single estimate of triage category for each individual potentially exposed to ionizing radiation in a large scale radiation accident or incident. The MULTIBIODOSE software has been created in Java. The usage of the software is based on the MULTIBIODOSE Guidance: the program creates a link to a single SQLite database for each incident, and the database is administered by the lead laboratory. The software has been tested with Java runtime environment 6 and 7 on a number of different Windows, Mac, and Linux systems, using data from a recent intercomparison exercise. The Java program MULTIBIODOSE_1.0.jar is freely available to download from http://www.multibiodose.eu/software or by contacting the software administrator: MULTIBIODOSE-software@gmx.com.
*Public Health England Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, Didcot, Oxford OX11 0RQ; †Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; ‡Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy; §Universiteit Gent, Belgium; **Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire, France; ††Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland; ‡‡Bundesamt fuer Strahlenschutz, Germany; §§Inst. für Radiobiologie der Bundeswehr in Verb. mit der Univ. Ulm, Germany; ***Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany; †††Stockholm University, Sweden.
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