I’ve been through the radiation therapy routine at another facility. The quality control process was really extensive. I would imagine there’s something similar for imaging applications. This is a significant breakdown. Fortunately, a one-shot dose at eight times the normal CT would still produce a radiation related cancer risk far below the natural risk. It’d be anywhere between five and twenty years worth of normal background radiation, though.
This line from the story struck me as a little odd.
“The FDA instructed CT operators to pay close attention to the “dose indices displayed on the control panel” both before and after a patient is scanned.”
The ‘before’ part I understand, but what’s the remedy for ‘after’? Writing OOPS! on the chart?