The aim of this work is to present the functionalities and first results of an automatic system on quality control and patient dosimetry for diagnostic radiology, and its application to computed tomography (CT) in a big university hospital. The system is directly connected to the PACS (Picture Archive an Communication System) of the hospital and extracts useful information contained in the DICO...

This report summarises work undertaken in support of a European Commission (EC) Concerted Action on CT that has included both a review and further development of the framework for CT dosimetry. The system previously established by the EC for reference doses in CT (with the quantities weighted CTDI (CTDIw) and dose-length product (DLP)) has been expanded to include subsequent developments in CT ...

Background: X-ray computed tomography (CT) examinations deliver a significant amount of radiation doses to patients comparing to conventional radiography examinations. The objective of the current study was to analyze and investigate the average patient received dose from axial and spiral CT exams in a medical imaging center. Material and Methods: In this study, the patient imaging tec...

BACKGROUND፡ The thyroid, along with the breast, lung, and bone marrow, is among most radiosensitive organs. This study aims to assess rate of unnecessary radiation exposure thyroid gland in patients who had chest Computed Tomography (CT) at a large teaching hospital. 
 METHOD: Hospital-based retrospective cross-sectional on 1,306 underwent CT from July 2018 January 2019. Thyroid inclusion ...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction Number Cardiac CT examinations in paediatric population is rising. Clinical questions might vary from cardiac anatomy, coronary arteries, function assessment to chest examination including evaluation large vessels, eventually combinations these tasks. Dose reduction children especially important. scanning mode selecti...

BACKGROUND This study is to investigate the feasibility of low iodine concentration contrast material (CM) combined with low tube voltage and adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR) in renal computed tomography angiography (CTA). MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 136 patients were enrolled in this prospective trial, and randomly divided into two groups: group A (n=68) and group B (n=...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES We aimed to evaluate whether implementation of a low-dose computed tomography (CT)-guided lung biopsy protocol, with the support of individual radiologists in the section, would lead to immediate and sustained decreases in radiation dose associated with CT-guided lung biopsies. MATERIALS AND METHODS A low-dose CT-guided lung biopsy protocol was developed with modifica...

OBJECTIVE To compare prospective ECG-gated multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) and trans-thoracic echocardiography (TTE) in the diagnosis of complex congenital heart disease (CHD). METHODS This was a prospective study of consecutive patients with complex CHD (age <7 years) treated at a tertiary hospital between May 2013 and May 2015. All patients were imaged with TTE and prospective ECG-ga...

We performed retrospective (first-step) and prospective (second-step) studies to evaluate the body information and noise on temporal bone computed tomography (CT) images in efforts to identify the optimized tube current yielding the greatest reduction in the radiation exposure of pediatric patients undergoing temporal bone CT studies. Our first-step study included 90 patients subjected to tempo...