Real-time measurement and audit of radiation dose to patients undergoing computed radiography.
A real-time patient dose monitoring system for auditing computed radiography is described. Technical data from each exposure and for every examination type are collected and sent by a network to a workstation, which calculates the moving average values of entrance skin dose and dose-area product from the 10 most recently examined patients. Comparison of averages with reference values generates warning messages if reference values are exceeded, prompting corrective action if necessary.
D000328:Adult; D019992:Databases as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D012867:Skin / Q000528:radiation effects*; D012984:Software; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed