Empowering Patients with Dose Information

Zwanger-Pesiri has a unique approach to lowering dose: giving patients a dose information card after studies. Here’s how the program is affecting business and radiation levels

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Poll: Provide Dose Information to Patients?

April 25, 2013 | Low Dose

Zwanger-Pesiri Radiology informs patients about radiation dose by giving them each a card detailing the dose received for each scan. Is it a good approach?

New Standards Combine Dose Mitigation, Reporting Features

April 24, 2013 | Low Dose

MITA's new set of management standards for CT equipment aims to help manufacturers comply with dose mitigation and reporting features.

Empowering Patients with Dose Information

April 23, 2013 | Low Dose

By Deborah Abrams Kaplan

Zwanger-Pesiri has a unique approach to lowering dose: giving patients a dose information card after studies. Here’s how the program is affecting business and radiation levels.

Q&A: Abolishing the Term “Low Dose” for CT Reporting

March 19, 2013 | CT, Low Dose

By Leah Lawrence

The term “low dose” for reporting CT scan radiation dose is too vague, say editors of the journal Radiology. Here one editor discusses the goal of abolishing the term.

These Imaging Tests Aren’t Always Necessary

February 21, 2013 | Molecular Imaging, Low Dose

By Diagnostic Imaging Staff

PET/CT for cancer screening in healthy patients? Think twice on this and other nuclear medicine and molecular imaging tests, say SNMMI’s Choosing Wisely list.

Report Offers System to Separate Useful and Wasteful Imaging

February 20, 2013 | Practice Management, Low Dose

By Whitney L.J. Howell

The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute’s new report introduces a classification system that could help determine whether a repeat image is necessary.

Benefits of CT in Young Adults Outweigh Cancer Risk

February 05, 2013 | CT, Low Dose

By Diagnostic Imaging Staff

Risks of radiation-induced cancer from CT scans in early adulthood are outweighed by the benefits obtained from the scans.

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Video: Low-Dose Efforts Helped By Dose Index Registry
December 06, 2011 | Low Dose, RSNA 2011
CHICAGO — Richard Morin, co-chair of the ACR Dose Index Registry Committee, interviewed at RSNA 2011, explains how radiologists can compare their dose practices with others, to give the metrics more meaning.
Video: James Brink, MD, Provides an Update on Image Wisely at RSNA 2011
December 05, 2011 | Low Dose, Safety, RSNA 2011
CHICAGO — Low-dose remained a top concern at RSNA 2011. James Brink, MD, co-chair of the Image Wisely Joint Task Force, announced that over 10,000 have taken the Image Wisely pledge. The effort to raise awareness asks radiologists to optimize the use of radiation when imaging patients.
Background Noise Less, Contrast Greater with MBIR, says Shuman
June 17, 2011 | Low Dose
(Video) William Shuman, MD, FACR, Professor and Vice Chairman for the Univ. of Washington Department of Radiology, discusses Model-based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) at the 2011 ISCT meeting in San Francisco.

Technology Helping with California Dose Reporting Law
December 19, 2012 | Low Dose, Safety
By Sara Michael
Stacy Johnson, of Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, discusses the use of technology to meet California’s dose reporting requirement and the law’s impact.
Podcast: Implementing a Low Dose Mammography Solution
August 22, 2012 | Women's Imaging, Low Dose
By Sara Michael
Raymond Tu, MD, discusses the considerations for implementing a new lower dose mammography system, including patient safety, market share, and cost.
Podcast: A Conversation about Lowering Radiation Dose
October 13, 2011 | CT, Low Dose, Safety
Diagnostic Imaging spoke with Dr. Johnsey Leef III, a radiologist with Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston, WV, about how the industry is responding to the call for lower dose imaging and what his department is doing to address the issue.
Low-dose CT works for appendicitis
November 19, 2010 | Low Dose, Safety
Low-dose CT works just as well in the detection of acute appendicitis as standard dose. In an interview with Diagnostic Imaging Dr. So Yeon Kim explains the image quality of low-dose CT and the possibility of low-dose CT replacing standard dose in acute appendicitis patients.

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