INITIATIVE FOR OPTIMIZING IMAGE QUALITY AND RADIATION DOSE
Keywords:
Medical imaging, ionizing radiation, optimizing image quality, CT scan, reducing radiation exposureAbstract
Medical imaging has become one of the most effective non-invasive diagnostic tools for the precise result. Since, it has grown to be the most demanding in the field of medicine, it also carries higher health risk due to the long exposure of ionizing radiation. For a very long time, it was believed that increasing radiation exposure was the only way to improve image quality. Since its introduction in the early 1970s, CT has had a dramatic evolution that has greatly improved its diagnostic performance in many clinical scenarios and vastly broadened its field of application. As a result, it has become crucial to balance radiation exposure while also optimizing the image quality of the diagnosis.
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