CR (and DR) set-ups can also lead to "poor" practices too ... sloppy collimation, for example, and over-exposure(s) due to "dose creep"; both resulting in higher doses to the patient.
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Totally agree, see this:
“Because of the automatic adjustment of grayscale in digital imaging, until the limit of adjustment is reached, overexposed images have a more pleasing appearance than underexposed images. Technologists respond to feedback from radiologists who naturally prefer less noisy images. Thus, receptor exposures tend to increase over time, and consequently, patient exposures also increase”
From: “One Year’s Results from a Server-Based System for Performing Reject
Analysis and Exposure Analysis in Computed Radiography” Journal of digital Radiography 2009
A. Kyle Jones,1 Raimund Polman,1 Charles E. Willis,1 and S. Jeff Shepard1
