title: CT radiation dose: what can you do right now in your practice?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to review reasonable measures that community radiologists can realistically implement as a response to the current increased public concern regarding CT radiation risk.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Potential measures include provision of patient information material, review of CT protocols and indications, promotion of alternative studies, use of decision support software, automatic tube current modulation, bismuth shields, improved image reconstruction algorithms, empowerment of technologists to adjust protocols, and calculation of radiation dose for possible reporting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, 94143-0628, USA. fergus.coakley@radiology.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Fergus V
authors.initials: FV
authors.lastname: Coakley
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gould
authors.forename: Benjamin M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: Ronald L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Arenson
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods*; D012306:Risk; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods