XR29 Certification Request Form (MITA Smart Dose CT)

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association's Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) continues its dose reduction effort with the approval of MITA Smart Dose, a standard that offers healthcare providers an additional tool to optimize and manage dose in CT scanning.

To find out if your GE HealthCare system meets the MITA Smart Dose CT standard, please fill out the Request Form below:

Several attributes of CT equipment help physicians and technologists optimize and manage dose. The MITA Smart Dose standard, also known as NEMA XR 29-2013, bundles four of these important features to ensure that compliant equipment produces high-quality diagnostic images while supporting patient safety. They are:

• DICOM Dose Structured Reporting: enables recording of post-exam dose information in a standardized electronic format. This information can be included in the patient record, promoting the establishment of diagnostic reference levels, as well as facility dose management and quality assurance.


• Pediatric and adult reference protocols: a set of pre-loaded protocols on a CT system that serve as a baseline for a variety of clinical tasks.


• CT Dose Check: incorporates two features - dose notifications and dose alerts - that can alert operators and physicians when dose exceeds established thresholds.


• Automatic Exposure Control (AEC): automatically adjusts the amount of radiation used, based on the size, shape and composition of the patient, in order to achieve a specified level of image quality.

For more information about the NEMA XR-29 (MITA Smart DOSE) standard, visit The American College of Radiology FAQs page.