Project PEAK

About Our Project

The Turku PET Centre works with radioactive isotopes that decay fast, which means the staff tracking emission peaks have to work fast too. Until now, that process has been largely manual. We built a tool that automates it: feed in the measurement data, and the application detects the emission peaks and produces a report, no manual work required.

The application is built as a web interface in TypeScript, designed to fit into the centre's existing workflows without requiring any technical know-how from the people using it.

Advantages

When peak tracking is done by hand, it is prone to human error and mistakes. Automating the detection removes that aspect and makes results consistent. It doesn't matter who's on shift or how busy the lab is. It also saves time — time that can be spent on work that actually needs a human.

Results

We worked directly with the Turku PET Centre throughout the project, so the tool reflects how things actually work there, not how we imagined they might. The application handles peak detection and report generation from real measurement data and solves a problem the centre deals with every day.

Future Development

The obvious next steps are tighter integration with the centre's existing data systems and real-time monitoring. There's also room to expand support for more isotopes and measurement formats as needs grow.

Technologies Used

• Frontend: TypeScript with Material UI components
• Backend: Python
• Deployment: Web application