Opportunities for radiation-dose optimization through standardized analytics and decision support.
Publication/Presentation Date
11-1-2014
Abstract
Although the potential for adverse clinical outcomes related to medical radiation have been well documented for over a century, several relatively recent trends have increased awareness of radiation safety in medical imaging. These include expanded CT applications and utilization, increased patient attention on radiation carcinogenesis, and a wide array of legislative and societal radiation initiatives, created partly in response to media reports of CT-induced radiation complications. With this heightened radiation awareness and scrutiny comes a unique and timely opportunity for the collective medical-imaging community to incorporate comparative radiation metrics and analysis directly into routine workflow and reporting. If properly performed, a number of benefits could in theory be derived, including improved clinical outcomes, creation of data-driven best practice guidelines, opportunities for enhanced education and research, dose-reduction technology innovation, and reversal of existing commoditization trends.
Volume
11
Issue
11
First Page
1048
Last Page
1052
ISSN
1558-349X
Published In/Presented At
Reiner B. I. (2014). Opportunities for radiation-dose optimization through standardized analytics and decision support. Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR, 11(11), 1048–1052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2014.06.010
Disciplines
Diagnosis | Medicine and Health Sciences | Other Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment | Radiology
PubMedID
25163408
Department(s)
Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Medical Imaging
Document Type
Article