Impact of active dose management on radiation exposure and image quality in computed tomography: An observational study in 1315 patients.
Aged
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pelvis
/ diagnostic imaging
Radiation Dosage
Radiation Exposure
/ statistics & numerical data
Radiography, Abdominal
/ statistics & numerical data
Radiography, Thoracic
/ statistics & numerical data
Reproducibility of Results
Retrospective Studies
Signal-To-Noise Ratio
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
/ methods
CT protocol
Dose management
Radiation exposure
Radiation protection
Tomography
Journal
European journal of radiology
ISSN: 1872-7727
Titre abrégé: Eur J Radiol
Pays: Ireland
ID NLM: 8106411
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2020
Apr 2020
Historique:
received:
07
10
2019
revised:
10
02
2020
accepted:
11
02
2020
pubmed:
29
2
2020
medline:
29
10
2020
entrez:
29
2
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To determine the clinical impact of CT dose management team on radiation exposure and image quality. 2026 clinical routine CT examinations of 1315 patients were evaluated retrospectively. A CT dose management team was established as an integral part of the radiological department. It identified 5 CT protocols (A-E), where national reference values were exceeded the most. Those reference values included specifically the mean volumetric CT dose index (CTDI Mean CTDI Establishing an operating dose management team as a standard for good clinical practice helps to considerably reduce CT radiation dose while preserving image quality.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32109835
pii: S0720-048X(20)30089-9
doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2020.108900
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Observational Study
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
108900Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest All authors of this article state that there are no conflicts of interest.