Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2017
Keywords:
CT, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, eHealth, Action 13 - Stakeholder engagement and collaboration, Action 9 - Facilitation of research in advanced topics of radiation protection, Action 10 - Improved communication and collaboration of health professionals in radiation protection, Action 7 - Medical radiation protection research: MELODI, EURAMED, Radiation safety, Dosimetric comparison
Authors:
M. R. Onur, Y. Ozkaya, M. N. Özmen, D. Akata, S. Birinci
DOI:
10.1594/esi2017/ESI-0042
Background/Introduction
Radiation dose monitorisation is becoming mainstay concern of radiology departments.
For radiation reduction purpose hospitals determine strategies in accordance with international standards and guidelines.
Radiation dose is also an important problem for countries since carcinogenic and genetic effects as sitocastic effects may constitute a significant health problem with long-term results regarding oncologic and non-oncologic disorders.
Reduction of radiation dose in a country begins with monitorisation of radiation dose in nation-wide scale.
Substantial variations exist in practice between some CT centres for similar types of examination and similar patient group.
These observations necessitate implementation of measures to keep all doses within acceptable ranges for the clinical purpose of each examination.
Monitoring CT examinations can be achieved through recording examination-specific diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for various patient groups
National level DRLs can be used as a reference to compare different health centers and prevent abnormal dose usage by detecting somehow increased variations from mean national DRL.