The program focused on high-dose examinations, patients scanned repeatedly for chronic conditions, pediatric patients and pregnant patients. Key strategies included ensuring the CT scanner functioned properly and staff members were appropriately trained, monitoring and evaluating radiation dose, optimizing CT acquisition protocols and educating referring physicians and patients.
Changing some CT acquisition protocols reduced the effective dose. Adding a low-dose renal stone CT scan protocol, for instance, reduced the effective dose by 64 percent.
Read the news release on the CT radiation dose reduction program.
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