Medical Radiation Exposure Tracker

Track cumulative radiation exposure from medical imaging procedures across a patient's lifetime. This skill calculates effective doses from diagnostic X-rays, CT scans, fluoroscopy, nuclear medicine studies, and interventional radiology procedures, incorporating body surface area adjustments, organ-specific weighting factors, and radioactive decay models for comprehensive dosimetry tracking.

Quick Install

npx skills add Open-Medica/open-medical-skills --skill radiation-exposure-tracker

What It Does

• Cumulative dose tracking: Maintains a running total of effective radiation dose (in millisieverts, mSv) from all documented medical imaging procedures, organized chronologically with per-procedure and cumulative totals
• Procedure-specific dose estimation: Provides reference effective dose values for common imaging studies (chest X-ray ~0.02 mSv, head CT ~2 mSv, abdomen/pelvis CT ~10 mSv, coronary CT angiography ~5-15 mSv, PET/CT ~25 mSv) based on published dosimetry data
• Body habitus adjustment: Adjusts dose estimates for patient body surface area, BMI, and age, as radiation exposure per procedure varies significantly with body size (larger patients require higher technique factors) and pediatric patients have higher tissue radiosensitivity
• Organ dose calculation: Estimates organ-specific absorbed doses using ICRP tissue weighting factors, enabling risk assessment for particularly radiosensitive organs (breast, thyroid, bone marrow, gonads)
• Lifetime cancer risk projection: Applies the BEIR VII linear no-threshold model to estimate the incremental lifetime attributable cancer risk from cumulative medical radiation exposure, presented as excess cases per 100,000 population

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