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Published on: September 11, 2011
Patient dose management in digital radiography
1Medical Physics Department, San Carlos University Hospital; and Radiology Department, Computense University, Madrid, Spain.
Purpose:
To present the experience in patient dose management and the development of an online audit tool for digital radiography.
Materials And Methods:
Several tools have been developed to extract the information contained in the DICOM header of digital images, collect radiographic parameters, calculate patient entrance doses and other related parameters, and audit image quality.
Results:
The tool has been used for mammography, and includes images from over 25,000 patients, over 75,000 chest images, 100,000 computed radiography procedures and more than 1,000 interventional radiology procedures. Examples of calculation of skin dose distribution in interventional cardiology based upon information of DICOM header and the results of dosimetric parameters for cardiology procedures in 2006 are presented.
Conclusion:
Digital radiology has great advantages for imaging and patient dose management. Dose reports, QCONLINE systems and the MPPS DICOM service are good tools to optimise procedures and to manage patient dosimetry data. The implementation of the ongoing IEC-DICOM standard for patient dose structured reports will improve dose management in digital radiology.
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