THE power of a computer stems from the fact that its behaviour can be changed with little more than a dose of new software.
The main additional time combined the launching of the software on the smartphone, the input of blood glucose value, meal carbohydrate intake, and the reading of software dose recommendation: overall this took less than 10 s.
With the introduction of iterative reconstruction algorithms and faster scan times, it is now possible to lower the peak kilovoltage from 120 to 80 kVp and, with the use of dose modulation software, to decrease the radiation dose in selected systems by >70%% without compromising the signal-to-noise ratio [ 12].
Pack will also include a heavy dose of Google, including its desktop search software, satellite and mapping software, photo management software, instant messaging application, toolbar for Web browsers and screen saver software.
The ability of the dose optimization software was tested in two ways.
Piperacillin concentrations obtained from eight patients receiving 4 g of piperacillin as a 20-min infusion every 6 h (n = 7) or 8 h (n = 1) were used to validate the performance of the dose optimization software.
We then assessed the accuracy of the dose optimization software using in silico validation experiments using multidose pharmacokinetic data from a small cohort of patients not included in the original population pharmacokinetic model.
For foot and ankle CT, a slice 1-cm thick gave an effective dose of 0.0018 mSv using PCMXC software (Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Helsinki, Finland).
A separate external data set from Roberts et al. (27) was then used to test the performance of the piperacillin dose optimization software.
Recently, the reduction in radiation dose obtained with cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) and low-dose multislice computed tomography (CT) has allowed the development of software capable of computing nasal airway volume [12].
