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Most imaging centers have more than one make and model of CT scanner in use across multiple locations within a hospital, city, or geographical region. These different scanners must fulfill identical imaging requests while often simultaneously realizing local site-specific exams. Many sites have in the hundreds of CT protocols to satisfy the hundreds of order sets a clinical diagnostic CT scanner receives. These clinical and logistical realities make CT protocol management challenging. This chapter defines this problem in more detail. We discuss strategies to address CT protocol management. We define a CT protocol from the perspective of clinical, compliance, workflow, and technical details. We discuss why we need a CT protocol optimization team and team membership. Lastly, we review solutions for documenting CT protocols and disseminating them to one’s CT scanner fleet.

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  1. University of Wisconsin Madison, School of Medicine and Pubic Health Department of Radiology, Madison, WI, USA

    Timothy P. Szczykutowicz

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  1. Department of Radiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

    Ehsan Samei

  2. Department of Bioengineering and Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Norbert J. Pelc

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Szczykutowicz, T.P. (2020). CT Practice Management. In: Samei, E., Pelc, N. (eds) Computed Tomography . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26957-9_9

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