Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2019
Keywords:
Quality assurance, Radiation safety, Equipment, Diagnostic procedure, PACS, Fluoroscopy, CT, Radioprotection / Radiation dose, Action 4 - Dose management systems
Authors:
J. Ansems, B. Damink-Koster, E. van Braam, H. Avenarius, V. Faasse
DOI:
10.26044/esi2019/ESI-0057
Conclusion and recommendations
A dose management system can be useful in many ways: checking (changes in) doselevels,
investigating outliers,
obtaining dose information in order to perform risk assessments and demonstrating compliance with diagnostic reference levels.
These uses are all facilitated by a dose management system without imposing an administrative burden on staff due to the collection of radiation dose information.
Special attention should be given to the connection of systems to a dose management system.
A system should be equipped with the following options: export dose reports in DICOM RDSR format,
be able to export dose reports to another destination as the images (or the PACS should be able to forward the dose reports to the dose management system) and the system should be able to send dose reports automatically.