Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s governor, signed a new radiation patient protection law in October 2010 that mandates strict procedures and reporting requirements for CT scanners and radiation-therapy procedures,...

Nationwide cumulative-dose indices, warning flags in electronic medical records (EMRs), and electronic imaging-history smart cards: All these are being called for to protect patients from excessive radiation exposure. The real advances on this hot-button issue for radiology, however, are taking place at the health-facility level, one patient...

Taking aim at the CT radiation overdose incidents that have roiled imaging facilities throughout California, the state's Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would establish protocols and safeguards to protect patients from overdoses.