title: Best practice: implementation and use of abdominal dual-energy CT in routine patient care.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this perspective is to document an experience with the adoption of dual-energy CT (DECT) for routine clinical imaging.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Successful implementation of DECT requires that technologists understand standards of image quality, be empowered to select appropriate patients, and understand networks for image routing. Radiologists need minimal facility with workstations to access the information embedded in DECT. DECT can be performed at a reduced effective radiation dose compared with single-energy CT and with lower doses of IV contrast material.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, NYU Langone Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. alec.megibow@nyumc.org
authors.forename: Alec J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Megibow
authors.forename: Dushyant
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sahani
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D015900:Radiography, Dual-Energy Scanned Projection / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*