A Team Approach for CT Protocol Optimization.

Abstract

* This article demonstrates that using several protocol change scenarios to illustrate how combining the expertise of a radiologist, CT technologist, a medical physicist, schedulers, and IT personnel would result in a better outcome for protocol optimization, management, and review. * While a team can develop a protocol change, it is not a given that they would then be capable of disseminating that change in a well-documented manner to all scanners within the CT fleet of their enterprise. Several scenarios are used to demonstrate these complexities and interrelationships. * Costs associated with protocol management are discussed. While teamwork and FTEs are quantifiable, the cost of failing to carry out these tasks is harder to quantify.