Researchers Find a Way to Reduce Patient Radiation Dose During Pulmonary CT Angiography

arrs.org -- While screening for possible pulmonary emboli using pulmonary CT angiography, a new study shows that radiologists can effectively lower the patient radiation dose by approximately 44% and improve vascular enhancement without deterioration of image quality, according to a study performed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.