Keywords:
Radiation safety, Physics, CT, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Radiation physics, Cardiac, Dosimetric comparison
Authors:
S. Maguire1, P. Gilligan1, B. M. L. McCoubrey1, M. Smyth2, S. J. Eustace3, J. G. Murray1; 1Dublin/IE, 2Dublin 7/IE, 3Dublin 4/IE
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-1280
Aims and objectives
Aim: To explore the use of Siemens teamplay™ in the establishment of cardiac CT diagnostic reference levels.
Introduction: The establishment of diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) in our centre previously utilised manual methods for collection and analysis of data.
Data was collected using hardcopy records of each CT scan or more recently using RIS and PACs data for manual analysis.
Manual analysis is labour intensive,
time consuming and continues to be used (1).
In our centre we have found RIS data to be difficult to extract and analyse.
We have also found that this data requires verification of the scan type,
anatomy and protocol carried out for each patient using the PACS.
Teamplay™ (Siemens Healthineers,
Germany) is a performance management web-based portal which allows generation of a range of key performance indicators (KPIs) for use in radiology.
Internal DRLs can be set on the system and compared to national reference levels.
The system also allows comparison against a variety of international benchmarks based on data from other users of the teamplay™ system.
Currently in Ireland there are no national cardiac CT DRLs (2).
Doses for cardiac CT scans can range widely depending on the acquisition technique and clinical indication.
The purpose of this work was to evaluate the use of teamplay™ in the establishment of clinical practice based cardiac DRLs.