IAEA Technical Meeting on Patient

Radiation Exposure Tracking

Qatar Presentation

Dr. Huda M. Al-Naemi

Qatar

Tracking radiation dose in HMC

• Recording Patients radiation doses established with

DRL under the IAEA regional project RAS/9/0/65.

• Patient demographic, radiological parameters, and

radiation doses were recorded for CT, General

radiography, Mammography and interventional

Cardiology.

IAEA regional project RAS/9/0/65

Task 1

Avoidance of radiation in interventional

procedures using x-ray and limiting the

probability of stochastic effects

Task 2

Survey of image Quality and Patient Doses in simple

Radiography Examination. Evaluation of Entrance Skin

Air Kerma (ESAK mGy) for: Chest, Lumbar Spine,

Abdomen, Skull and Pelvis

Task 4

Survey of Mammography practice from the

Optimization of Radiation Protection Viewpoint, and

Optimization in Mammography

Task 5

Patient dose management in computed tomography

with special emphasis to pediatric patients

Presented Posters

• American

Association of

Physics in

Medicine (AAPM)

55th Annual

Meeting &

Expiation. August

4 – 8, 2013,

Indiana, USA

• 20th

International

Conference on

Medical Physics

(ICMP) at the

Brighton Centre,

Brighton, UK

from 1-4th

September 2013

• American

Association of

Physics in

Medicine (AAPM)

55th Annual

Meeting &

Expiation. August

4 – 8, 2013,

Indiana, USA

What we have in HMC

• Radiology Information System (RIS)

• Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)

• Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM)

Patient ID In HMC

Qatar Health Card:

Can we use the patient ID card as smart

card?

Future plans

• so that HMC for each patient could recorded a

full dose risk history over time by having dose

tracking smart cards.