A novel tool for user-friendly estimation of natural, diagnostic and professional radiation risk: Radio-Risk software (Articolo in rivista)

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  • A novel tool for user-friendly estimation of natural, diagnostic and professional radiation risk: Radio-Risk software (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2012-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.05.039 (literal)
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  • Picano, Eugenio (1); CARPEGGIANI, CLARA (1); Paterni, Marco (1); Caramella, Davide (2); Vano, Eliseo (3); Semelka, Richard C. (4) (2012)
    A novel tool for user-friendly estimation of natural, diagnostic and professional radiation risk: Radio-Risk software
    in European journal of radiology
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  • Picano, Eugenio (1); CARPEGGIANI, CLARA (1); Paterni, Marco (1); Caramella, Davide (2); Vano, Eliseo (3); Semelka, Richard C. (4) (literal)
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  • (1) CNR-IFC, Pisa; (2) Radiologia, Università di Pisa; (3) San Carlos Hospital, Radiology Department, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain; (4) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA (literal)
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  • A novel tool for user-friendly estimation of natural, diagnostic and professional radiation risk: Radio-Risk software (literal)
Abstract
  • Background: Awareness of radiological risk is low among doctors and patients. An educational/decision tool that considers each patient's cumulative lifetime radiation exposure would facilitate provider-patient communication. Aim: The purpose of this work was to develop user-friendly software for simple estimation and communication of radiological risk to patients and doctors as a part of the SUIT-Heart (Stop Useless Imaging Testing in Heart disease) Project of the Tuscany Region. Methods: We developed a novel software program (PC-platform, Windows OS fully downloadable at http://suit-heart.ifc.cnr.it) considering reference dose estimates from American Heart Association Radiological Imaging 2009 guidelines and UK Royal College of Radiology 2007 guidelines. Cancer age and gender-weighted risk were derived from Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation VII Committee, 2006. Results: With simple input functions (demographics, age, gender) the user selects from a predetermined menu variables relating to natural (e. g., airplane flights and geo-tracked background exposure), professional (e. g., cath lab workers) and medical (e. g., CT, cardiac scintigraphy, coronary stenting) sources. The program provides a simple numeric (cumulative effective dose in milliSievert, mSv, and equivalent number of chest X-rays) and graphic (cumulative temporal trends of exposure, cancer cases out of 100 exposed persons) display. Conclusions: A simple software program allows straightforward estimation of cumulative dose (in multiples of chest X-rays) and risk (in extra % lifetime cancer risk), with simple numbers quantifying lifetime extra cancer risk. Pictorial display of radiation risk may be valuable for increasing radiological awareness in cardiologists (literal)
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