Resumen

VERGARA E, Mauricio et al. REDUCCION DE DOSIS AL PACIENTE EN TC: UN ESTUDIO DE RESULTADOS EN LA PRACTICA CLINICA. Rev. chil. radiol. [online]. 2003, vol.9, n.1, pp.29-32. ISSN 0717-9308.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-93082003000100007.

Tomography studies are less than 10% of the total number of imaging studies but deliver more than 40% of the total collective dose to those patients. This situation has generated an increasing number of initiatives to reduce tomography doses. We analysed our routine CT protocols for headache, abdomen, patellofemoral dysfunction and sinusitis; they conform 60% of our total demand for CT examinations in a hospital setting. This revision enabled us to reduce the dose the patient in 30 to 50% of their original values. Diagnostic quality was maintained and the benefit to the patient is obvious

Palabras clave : Computed tomography; Radiation.