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Clinically Focused Physics
Education: Principles to Practice
Part B
Phuong-Anh Duong, MD
Chief Quality Officer and Director of CT Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
Emory University
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Why teach at the viewbox?
Practical troubleshooting of image quality and dose
Communicate risks and benefits of CT with patients
and other healthcare workers
Increase awareness of range of acceptable dose
and image quality
Communicate effectively with technologists—learn
the same language
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Scanners are complex
Iterative recon
ATCM autokV
Multidetector CT Image
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Scanners are very complex
Siemens
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More good reasons…
Joint Commission requirement for dose to be part of
medical record starting July 2015(?)
Patient access to reports via patient portal
Non-interpretive skills section
on ABR exam
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How we do it
• Assign articles to read
• Learning modules:
– http://www.sprawls.org/resources/
– Communicating risks and benefits with
patients (soon to be medU Core module)
• Case-based online module—see our
educational exhibit
• Risk communication concepts
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Review at the Viewbox
• Discuss dose report
• Discuss protocol parameters that affect dose
and quality
• Dose reduction techniques and pitfalls
• Review proper patient positioning
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Review dose report
Duong PA, Little BP. Dose tracking and dose auditing in a comprehensive computed
tomography dose reduction program. Semin Ultrasound CT MR; 35(4): 322-330
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Only 1 set of images on PACS
Patient scanned twice but only 1 set of images sent!
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Protocol factors
Beware of pitfalls!
Automatic
selection based
on scout
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100kVp-21NI
Automatic tube current
modulation (ATCM)
• X-Y axis
• How modulates depends on
manufacturer – Sinusoidal (GE)
– Attenuation based (Phillips,
Siemens)
• Curves not available to user
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Miscentering increases dose
• 549 patient scouts
– Mean error: 2.3 cm below
center of rotation
– Mean increase in noise 7%
– Mean increase in surface
dose 15% (up to140%)
-Toth T, Ge Z, Daly M. Med Phys. 2007 Jul; 34 (7):3093-101
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Automatic Tube Potential
Modulation (ATPM)
140 kVp
259 mAs 100 kVp
212 mAs
Yu L, et al. AJR. 2013 Aug; 201(2):W297-306
Works in concert with automatic tube current modulation.
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CTDIvol: 6.6 mGy/cm CTDIvol: 20.28 mGy/cm
X Y
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c d
b
37.7 cm 44.8 cm
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Communicating with patients
and other healthcare workers
• Visual aids for patients
• Natural frequency (“1 in 1000”)
• Online resources:
– Xrayrisk.com—calculate estimated
– Radiologyinfo.org
– Riskcomm.com
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How do I present the risks to the
patient?
One way to discuss risk is to use a perspective scale showing the
relative risk of death to other life risks.
Blank scales can be found at http://www.riskcomm.com/scales.htm
Aortic dissection Chest CTA
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Estimated Cancer Risk for Multiphase
Chest CTA
Lifetime risk of cancer
Additional risk of a multiphase chest CTA
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Xrayrisk.com
Calculates baseline
and additional cancer
cumulative risks.
Effective Dose
an estimate
dose for
Chest CT
Enter DLP for more
accurate dose. Doses
vary 10 fold across the
country!
Copyright © 2010, AngioCalc, LLC. All rights reserved. All
rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. All entered
data is property of AngioCalc and may be used for research
purposes.
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Case based review
• Artifacts
• How to decide among dose reduction options
• What’s wrong with this picture?
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Sample cases
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Helical “windmill” artifact
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Helical artifact
• High effective pitch
• Discuss effective pitch
– When does it need to be less than 1?
– What are the advantages and disadvantages
of a high pitch?
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Scanner artifacts: ring artifact
• Detector out of
calibration
– Can recalibrate
– Discuss QC
procedures
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Photon starvation—no dose
modulation
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What’s wrong with this picture?
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kVp: use 100kv bmi<30 only!
kVp = 100, noise(SD) = 68 kVp = 120, noise = 26
BMI = 39
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No ATCM, fixed mode with low mA
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What’s wrong with this picture?
Iterative reconstruction—too many iterations
(100% ASIR)
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Case based scenarios
• What is the best dose reduction strategy?
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Thin woman, 64 row MDCT, CTA
CAP(Aorta)
A. Increase noise index (lower quality index)
B. Decrease kVp
C. Increase pitch
Answer: B
100 kV 120kV
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Head CT on uncooperative
inpatient
• A. Helical mode, large collimation
• B. Axial mode, small collimation
• Answer: A
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Dose tracking
Unexpected protocol change corrected
CTDI head CT
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Summary
Engage residents in learning about image
acquisition, safety, and quality
Improve communication with patients and other
health care professionals