Diagnostic Reference Levels in Medical Imaging


Draft document: Diagnostic Reference Levels in Medical Imaging
Submitted by Ana Roda, IPOCFG
Commenting on behalf of the organisation

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Table 2.1 – document emphasises DRL are estabilished for specific clinical tasks and table is a miscellaneous of protocol definitions. Suggest to remove different types of radiography ….Trunk? Skull? … replace with screening mammography, projection radiography, diagnostic fluoroscopy, interventional fluoroscopy ….

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Table 2.1 categorizes certain examinations?!  A different table perhaps with defined examinations based on clinical task.

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achievable dose (AD) ….instead of ….. AD …. Made me return to look for definition of AD.

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MTF and NPS - should briefly quote that - these quantitative measurements do not characterize the system in terms of clinical image quality (clinical task) they describe well the inherent performance of the imaging detector…

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patients

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Standard output data – no reference of what this means

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Should (has two ll)

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Both without and with enhancement with contrast material





























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