Workshop yields big drop in scan radiation dose
Scan data from 10 radiology practices in Australia showed that attendance at a radiation dose-optimization workshop nearly halved the doses subsequently given to patients.
The study, published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, aimed to evaluate dose data produced in 64-detector-row CT scanning, and assess the effects of a one-day feedback and optimization training workshop for radiologists on scan doses, according to medical physicist and lead author Anthony Wallace (JACR, August 2010, Vol. 7:8).
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