This talk will explain and discuss recent developments in technology that have allowed a new approach to optimisation of both patient dose/image quality and also staff dose. It will focus on recent technological developments in both the imaging chain and also image processing. Furthermore, it will discuss developments in linking staff radiation exposure to patient radiation exposure, leading to the availability of a far richer data set for scientists to access. The talk will conclude with a description of recent developments at a national level to attempt to obtain UK-wide interventional procedural radiation-related data.
Andy Rogers is currently the Lead Interventional MPE at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and also the immediate past-President of the British Institute of Radiology. He currently chairs the UK working group investigating how best to set DRLs in interventional procedures. He was recently a member of an ICRP working group that has published a report on Diagnostic Reference Levels. He is also a full member of the IEC Maintenance Teams for interventional and general x-ray equipment and has just been co-opted on to two international WG's looking at quality control of radiological equipment in general (IEC) and angiography imaging equipment (EFOMP). My current research interests are skin dose assessment and optimisation in interventional cardiology and radiology.