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Reduced-Radiation Heart Scans Don't Compromise on Quality


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"Importantly, despite the reduction in radiation doses, there were no significant differences during the control period compared with follow-up period in median image quality rating or the proportion of diagnostic-quality scans," researchers wrote.

Researchers recommended that physicians and other hospital personnel learn strategies for reducing radiation exposure.

The importance of radiation-reduction techniques must be emphasized during physician and technologist training, and physicians should demonstrate technical mastery of these methods before certification to oversee CCTA scanning, they wrote.

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Last updated 6/9/2009

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SOURCE: Journal of the American Medical Association, news release, June 9, 2009


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