Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality
Due to the concerns about radiation dose associated with medical imaging, radiation dose monitoring systems (RDMSs) are now utilized by many radiology providers to collect, process, analyze, and manage radiation dose-related information. Currently, most commercially available RDMSs focus only on rad...
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| author | Njood Alsaihati Francesco Ria Justin Solomon Aiping Ding Donald Frush Ehsan Samei |
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| description | Due to the concerns about radiation dose associated with medical imaging, radiation dose monitoring systems (RDMSs) are now utilized by many radiology providers to collect, process, analyze, and manage radiation dose-related information. Currently, most commercially available RDMSs focus only on radiation dose information and do not track any metrics related to image quality. However, to enable comprehensive patient-based imaging optimization, it is equally important to monitor image quality as well. This article describes how RDMS design can be extended beyond radiation dose to simultaneously monitor image quality. A newly designed interface was evaluated by different groups of radiology professionals (radiologists, technologists, and physicists) on a Likert scale. The results show that the new design is effective in assessing both image quality and safety in clinical practices, with an overall average score of 7.8 out of 10.0 and scores ranging from 5.5 to 10.0. Radiologists rated the interface highest at 8.4 out of 10.0, followed by technologists at 7.6 out of 10.0, and medical physicists at 7.5 out of 10.0. This work demonstrates how the assessment of the radiation dose can be performed in conjunction with the image quality using customizable user interfaces based on the clinical needs associated with different radiology professions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f1845ae16ce24769872a5d23ec8ed1e12023-11-17T21:36:41ZengMDPI AGTomography2379-13812379-139X2023-04-019279880910.3390/tomography9020065Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging QualityNjood Alsaihati0Francesco Ria1Justin Solomon2Aiping Ding3Donald Frush4Ehsan Samei5Carl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USACarl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USACarl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USACarl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USACarl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USACarl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USADue to the concerns about radiation dose associated with medical imaging, radiation dose monitoring systems (RDMSs) are now utilized by many radiology providers to collect, process, analyze, and manage radiation dose-related information. Currently, most commercially available RDMSs focus only on radiation dose information and do not track any metrics related to image quality. However, to enable comprehensive patient-based imaging optimization, it is equally important to monitor image quality as well. This article describes how RDMS design can be extended beyond radiation dose to simultaneously monitor image quality. A newly designed interface was evaluated by different groups of radiology professionals (radiologists, technologists, and physicists) on a Likert scale. The results show that the new design is effective in assessing both image quality and safety in clinical practices, with an overall average score of 7.8 out of 10.0 and scores ranging from 5.5 to 10.0. Radiologists rated the interface highest at 8.4 out of 10.0, followed by technologists at 7.6 out of 10.0, and medical physicists at 7.5 out of 10.0. This work demonstrates how the assessment of the radiation dose can be performed in conjunction with the image quality using customizable user interfaces based on the clinical needs associated with different radiology professions.https://www.mdpi.com/2379-139X/9/2/65CTdose monitoringradiation doseimage qualityquality assurance |
| spellingShingle | Njood Alsaihati Francesco Ria Justin Solomon Aiping Ding Donald Frush Ehsan Samei Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality Tomography CT dose monitoring radiation dose image quality quality assurance |
| title | Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality |
| title_full | Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality |
| title_fullStr | Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality |
| title_short | Making CT Dose Monitoring Meaningful: Augmenting Dose with Imaging Quality |
| title_sort | making ct dose monitoring meaningful augmenting dose with imaging quality |
| topic | CT dose monitoring radiation dose image quality quality assurance |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2379-139X/9/2/65 |
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