Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2016
Keywords:
Action 8 - EuroSafe Imaging Stars network and data collection, Action 3 - Optimisation, diagnostic reference levels, image quality, Action 2 - Clinical audit, Action 6 - Clinical audit tool for imaging, Action 2 - Clinical diagnostic reference levels (DRLs), Action 10 - EuroSafe Imaging Stars
Authors:
K. Ahlström Riklund, J. S. Andersson, J. Lundman, C. Granberg
DOI:
10.1594/esi2016/ESI-0035
Background/Introduction
In October 2014,
Västerbotten County (VLL),
Sweden,
installed Sectra DoseTrack1 for radiation exposure monitoring in radiology.
A versatile and robust IT-solution for exposure monitoring to assist with follow-up of the processes of justification and optimization had been discussed in multidisciplinary X-ray modality specific forums prior to the procurement.
In these forums radiologists and relevant specialist physicians work together with medical physicists and radiographers with progress of imaging.
Furthermore,
the need of an IT-solution had also been identified to fulfil legal demands from the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority on mandatory reporting of statistics pertaining to X-ray applications in healthcare in a more automatic way.
Sectra DoseTrack is a web-based radiation exposure monitoring IT-solution for automatic collection,
storage,
monitoring and displaying Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) metadata2 collected in the form of Radiation Dose Structured Reports (RDSR) and Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS).