Patent ID: 8317674

Claim:
A shielding assembly for an infusion system, the shielding assembly being mounted within a cabinet structure, and the shielding assembly comprising: a plurality of compartments having sidewalls providing barriers to radioactive radiation for the compartments; a corresponding plurality of doors, each door, when open, providing access to the corresponding compartment via an opening in its sidewall, and, when closed, providing further barrier to radioactive radiation for the corresponding compartment; a first compartment of the plurality of compartments enclosed by a first sidewall of the sidewalls and sized to contain a radioisotope generator of the infusion system, the first sidewall including a first sidewall opening oriented upward and aligned with a first upper opening through a shell of the cabinet structure, an upper surface of the shell being located at an elevation with respect to a lowermost portion of the cabinet structure substantially greater than the first sidewall opening and the first upper opening.