Background/Introduction
In the past years,
there has been some activities in Portugal to improve the knowledge skills and competences in the field of radiation protection.
The Portuguese Society of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine,
together with ESTESC-Coimbra health School,
Instituto Superior Técnico and the Colégio Brasileiro de Radiologia,
organized a workshop in Justification and optimization in medicine,
for the Portuguese Speaking countries.
The workshop was a major success and ended with the legal representatives of national health authorities of the Portuguese speaking countries signing the “Lisbon Commitment”,...
Description of activity and work performed
Project 1
Analysis of procedures for head,
chest and abdominal CT scans,
from different vendors.
Objectives:
To achieve CT procedures harmonization;
To obtain dose reduction;
To obtain adequateimage quality considering the clinical task.
Results:
A dose reduction of 10,
36 and 10%,
respectively in head,
chest and abdominal CT scans was achieved,
whilst maintaining adequate objective and subjective image quality and harmonising procedures.
Project 2
Analysis of overexposed areas in paediatric plain radiography
Objectives:
To compare the beam collimation with electronic collimation in chest,
abdomen...
Conclusion and Recommendations
Team work between academic and clinical radiographers,
with the close cooperation and contribution of radiologists,
through applied research projects in radiography,
havesignificantly contributed to the developmentof a patient safety culture,
improving the quality of care and implementing best practice in medical imaging departments.
Personal/Organisational information
These activities have contributed to create awareness amongst the medical imaging community in Portugal,
in line with the Eurosafe Imaging campaign objectives.