DICOM Database for Automated Radiation Dose Tracking and Quality monitoring

Running head: DATABASE DESIGN PROJECT
Database Design Project
DICOM Database for Automated Radiation Dose Tracking and Quality monitoring
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2DATABASE DESIGN PROJECT
Introduction
In any healthcare facility radiation based diagnosis procedures are used such as X-ray,
CT scan, MRI, nuclear medicine and ultrasound. Imbalanced and high dosage of these
radiological diagnoses procedure could have several major and minor impacts on the patients
(Larson et al. 2013). Hence, every healthcare organization has their own controlling system to
measure the doses to minimize overdose.
Problem Statement
As per the regulation state regulatory bodies and by The Joint Commission in the US
it is the chief criteria for any healthcare facility to have a controlled system for quality
assurance (QA) monitoring of ionizing radiation use with certain diagnostic procedures
(Garrido et al. 2013). However, this monitoring and controlling systems sometime become
very complicated due to complex interconnection between various medical and clinical
procedures and dataset (Wang et al., 2013). Hence, it would be very helpful if a automated
database system could be developed for knowledge management and quality assurance.
Project Objectives
To develop an automated database system successfully the following objectives have to
be considered as milestones
 Analyzing the requirement for data processing and knowledge management
procedures in ionizing radiation controlling
 Forming a database relational concept model for automated DICOM data
management
 Developing implementable database architecture model of Automated DBMS for
ionizing radiation and controlling