Design and Implementation of an Institution-Wide Patient-Specific Radiation Dose Monitoring Program for Computed Tomography, Digital Radiography, and Nuclear Medicine

dc.contributor.advisor	Samei, Ehsan
dc.contributor.author	Christianson, Olav
dc.date.accessioned	2011-05-20T19:13:20Z
dc.date.available	2011-11-15T05:30:17Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.department	Medical Physics
dc.description.abstract	Recently, there has been renewed interest in decreasing radiation dose to patients from diagnostic imaging procedures. So far, efforts to decrease radiation dose have focused on the amount of radiation delivered from typical techniques and fail to capture the variation in radiation dose between patients. Despite the feasibility of estimating patient-specific radiation doses and the potential for this practice to aid in protocol optimization, it is not currently standard procedure for hospitals to monitor radiation dose for all patients. To address this shortcoming, we have developed an institution-wide patient-specific radiation dose monitoring program for computed tomography, digital radiography, and nuclear medicine.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10161/3789
dc.subject	Medical imaging and radiology
dc.subject	Dose
dc.subject	Imaging
dc.subject	Monitoring
dc.subject	patient-specific
dc.subject	Radiation
dc.subject	X-ray
dc.title	Design and Implementation of an Institution-Wide Patient-Specific Radiation Dose Monitoring Program for Computed Tomography, Digital Radiography, and Nuclear Medicine
dc.type	Master's thesis
duke.embargo.months	6

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