Refresher course tackles pulmonary embolism CT optimization

This refresher course on optimizing CT for pulmonary embolism will review a number of practical radiation dose reduction techniques.

Dr. Aaron Sodickson, PhD, from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School will demonstrate ways to optimize CT settings and contrast administration to achieve the best CT scans with high image quality and low radiation doses.

From practical tips to x-ray tube output metrics, CT dose index volume (CTDI_vol), and dose-length product calculations, the course will focus on "those patients in whom the decision has been made to image," Sodickson said.