Congress:
EuroSafe Imaging 2019
Keywords:
Action 8 - Radiation protection training and learning material, Computer applications, CT, Education, Education and training
Authors:
A. Persson, N. Dahlström, A. Malusek
DOI:
10.26044/esi2019/ESI-0081
Conclusion and recommendations
Results
The RSCT software has successfully been developed,
validated and implemented in real life educational curricula (11, 12).
The software is now used in training of radiologists,
technologists,
physicists,
and engineers in-training as well as in-practice at Linkoping university in Sweden and there are inquiries from several other universities in Europe that want to use RSCT for both teaching and in research projects.
Conclusions
RSCT is a web-based educational tool for learning the principles of CT scanning in radiology with the focus on radiation dose optimization and increased clinical value from a CT examination.
The new tool is a vendor-neutral simulation software which utilizes images from actual clinical single- and dual-energy CT examinations.
It allows users to set various scan parameters and instantly observe the effects of these changes.
The RSCT software has successfully been developed,
validated and implemented in real life educational curricula and presented at several national and international meetings,
for instance at the educational exhibition of the Radiological Society of North America annual congress (RSNA) 2018.
During the development of this new tool,
the RSCT server-side has been hosted at the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV),
Linköping university Sweden.
The program can be used free of charge for everyone as open-access platform and available worldwide.
The project Aims have now been fulfilled and it will be difficult to maintain the application in the current form and develop the application further unless another host can be found and additional funding can be obtained.
Hopefully,
a non-commercial organization can take over the responsibility for this new tool that has attracted great interest.
Current version of the software can be found at https://radsimct.se