The right dose of expertise: How Agfa HealthCare is helping stakeholders balance ?imaging gently? with quality imaging
In the days of film-on-a-lightbox, dose seemed easier to control. If you overexposed film, the image would turn black. It you underexposed, the image would be too light. These technical realities exercised subtle control over the range of dose that would produce a useable image. With the advent of digital imaging, those subtle nuances have changed.
Digital dose creep
Technologists soon learned that slight overexposure in digital imaging could create a better looking image. So there was a natural tendency for doses to slowly edge higher in the name of image quality. Add to this the steady increase of new types of modalities coming on line and the patient