{"id":1472,"date":"2013-11-06T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:04:36","slug":"advanced-equipment-allows-mrts-to-reduce-radiation-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/uncategorized\/advanced-equipment-allows-mrts-to-reduce-radiation-doses\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced equipment allows MRTs to reduce radiation doses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-center\"><em>Medical Radiation Technologist Nathalie Gravel and her colleagues are proud of the new high-definition Discovery CT scanner and software that allow lower radiation doses for patients.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Radiation \u2013 an invisible property that helps diagnose and treat many diseases \u2013 is helpful but must be used responsibly. That\u2019s why Medical Radiation Technologists (MRTs) always try to keep radiation doses for patients and staff as low as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time we take an image or administer a treatment, all aspects of the patient\u2019s safety are carefully considered,\u201d said Brenda Zeran-Joyce, Quality Control Technologist in the Medical Imaging Department. \u201cAdvancements have made it possible for MRTs to keep doses to the lowest attainable levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TOH has recently invested in these advances:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mobile digital x-ray units.<\/strong> MRTs can use less radiation while still creating high-quality images. The units also allow faster turnaround times so doctors can see the images sooner.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CT (computed tomography), investment in software and time.<\/strong> Now, most CT exams are done with lower radiation doses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nuclear medicine technique called half-time resolution recovery imaging.<\/strong> This technique allows for lower radioactive doses while maintaining high-quality images.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advanced MRI equipment and protocols.<\/strong> Technologists can perform a broad range of procedures using MRIs, such as functional imaging, for conditions previously diagnosed only using CT or nuclear medicine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Radiation therapy, on-board cone-beam imaging.<\/strong> This digital x-ray unit produces 3-D images of the patient\u2019s internal anatomy, allowing for smaller areas to be treated with extreme precision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis final technology lets us reduce the radiation dose to normal tissues while maintaining the therapeutic dose to cancerous tumours,\u201d said Andr\u00e9 Patry, Education Coordinator in the Radiation Therapy Department.<\/p>\n<p>MRT Week, Nov. 3 to 9, celebrates the skill and understanding of evolving technology that MRTs contribute to help improve patient care and outcomes. Check out the information kiosks at each campus to learn more about radiation-dose reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Radiation Technologist Nathalie Gravel and her colleagues are proud of the new high-definition Discovery CT scanner and software that allow lower radiation doses for patients. Radiation \u2013 an invisible property that helps diagnose and treat many diseases \u2013 is helpful but must be used responsibly. That\u2019s why Medical Radiation Technologists (MRTs) always try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}