3 Pediatric and small patient scans
3.1 Optimize pediatric protocols for your facility
Work with your team of radiologists, medical physicists, and CT technologists to evaluate
techniques that may reduce radiation dose and still provide adequate diagnostic information. In
addition to the recommended protocols installed on your system and suggestions in this
manual, these websites offer excellent sources of additional information on how to optimize
scanning protocols:
•
American College of Radiology (ACR): www.acr.org/
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Society of Pediatric Radiology (SPR): http://www.pedrad.org/
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National Cancer Institute (NCI): http://www.nci.nih.gov/aboutnci
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Image Gently: http://www.imagegently.com/
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FDA website: http://www.fda.gov/
3.2 Pediatric protocols
The Pediatric Protocol area was designed to help facilitate protocol selection for pediatric
patients by providing age based protocol areas for Head, Orbit and Miscellaneous and color
coding system for Neck, Upper Extremity, Chest, Abdomen, Spine and Pelvis. It is highly
recommended to place and select pediatric protocols from the pediatric selector based on age,
height, and weight. By entering the pediatric patient's weight in the
Patient Information
screen,
the system automatically selects the appropriate color code area for the anatomical area
selected.
The system automatically selects the pediatric selector when the patient’s age is less than or
equal to the age value set in the Maximum Pediatric Age. This value is set from
Mode
menu,
System Preferences
,
Protocol Selection
.
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