An Investigation into the Infrastructure and Management of Computerized Tomography Units in Ghana

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences - Tập 51 - Trang 165-172 - 2020
Benard Botwe1,2, Cyril Schandorf1, Stephen Inkoom3,4, Augustine Faanu1,5
1Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana, Atomic Campus, Accra, Ghana, Legon.
2Radiography Department, School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences, Collegue of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Korle-Bu Campus, Accra, Ghana
3Medical Physics Department, School of Nuclear and Allied Sciences, University of Ghana, Atomic Campus, Accra, Ghana.
4Radiation Protection Institute (RPI), Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Accra, Ghana
5Radiological and Non-ionizing Radiation Directorate, Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Accra, Ghana.

Tài liệu tham khảo

Takagi, 2018, Diagnostic performance of coronary CT angiography with ultra-high-resolution CT: comparison with invasive coronary angiography, Eur J Radiol, 101, 30, 10.1016/j.ejrad.2018.01.030 Imai, 2018, Benefits of computed tomography in reducing mortality in emergency medicine, Open Med (Wars), 13, 394, 10.1515/med-2018-0058 Pandharipande, 2016, CT in the emergency department: a real-time study of changes in physician decision making, Radiology, 278, 812, 10.1148/radiol.2015150473 Kanal, 2017, U.S. diagnostic reference levels and achievable doses for 10 adult CT examinations, Radiology, 284, 120, 10.1148/radiol.2017161911 Mayo-Smith, 2014, How I do it: managing radiation dose in CT, Radiology, 273, 657, 10.1148/radiol.14132328 Adejoh, 2018, Computed tomography scanner census and adult head dose in Nigeria, Egypt J Radiol Nucl Med, 49, 66, 10.1016/j.ejrnm.2017.09.001 Anim-Sampong, 2016, Comparison of 640-slice Aquilon ONE CT scanner’s measured dosimetric parameters with ICRP dose reference levels for head, chest and abdominal CT examinations, Saf Health, 2, 7, 10.1186/s40886-016-0019-4 Powles 2018 2014, Renewal of radiological equipment, Insights Imaging, 5, 543, 10.1007/s13244-014-0345-1 Ngoya, 2016, Defining the diagnostic divide: an analysis of registered radiological equipment resources in a low-income African country, Pan Afr Med J, 25, 99, 10.11604/pamj.2016.25.99.9736 Vanckavicienea, 2014, Supply and demand for radiographers in Lithuania: a prognosis for 2012–2030, Eur J Radiol, 83, 1292, 10.1016/j.ejrad.2014.04.009 Schandorf, 1998, Analysis of the status of X-ray diagnosis in Ghana, Br J Radiol, 71, 1040, 10.1259/bjr.71.850.10211064 Gao, 2017, A comparison of pediatric and adult CT organ dose estimation methods, BMC Med Imaging, 17, 28, 10.1186/s12880-017-0199-3 Korir, 2016, National diagnostic reference level initiative for computed tomography examinations in Kenya, Radiat Prot Dosimetry, 168, 242 Jaffe, 2010, Radiation dose for routine clinical adult brain CT: variability on different scanners at one institution, Am J Roentgenol, 195, 433, 10.2214/AJR.09.3957 Qureshi 2007, The 2007 recommendations of the international commission on radiological protection. ICRP publication 103, Ann ICRP, 37, 1 Delis, 2017, Moving beyond quality control in diagnostic radiology and the role of the clinically qualified medical physicist, Phys Med, 41, 104, 10.1016/j.ejmp.2017.04.007 Korir, 2013, Quality management systems in radiology, SA J Radiol, 17, 84, 10.7196/sajr.886
Thông tin
Thông tin xuất bản

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences

Tập 51

165-172

Thông tin tác giả