Radiologists, Medical Physicists Working Toward Patient Safety In CT

Today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the largest international medical meeting, radiology professionals responded to a review article in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). “Computed Tomography - An Increasing Source of Radiation Exposure,” authored by David Brenner, Ph.D., D.Sc., and Eric J. Hall, D.Phil., D.Sc., discussed the growth in the use of computed tomography (CT) and the increase in patient radiation exposure as a result. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Radiology on December 2nd, 2007