System and method of remote reporting of radiation dose usage in image acquisition

A non-transitory computer readable medium including a plurality of program instructions for execution by a processor to perform the steps of:

• receiving a request from a customer to establish communication between a workstation and a system directing ionizing radiation toward an exposed subject of an examination;
• automatically communicating a status information and individual dose data associated with an event where direction of the ionizing radiation exceeds a total radiation dose threshold, wherein the individual dose data comprises a measure of total radiation dose;
• and
• automatically creating and communicating a report to the customer, the report including an indication of the event where direction of the ionizing radiation exceeds the total radiation dose threshold, wherein the report also includes a graphical representation comprising:
• a cumulative dose incident map depicting a measure of cumulative radiation dose directed to the exposed subject and having at least two axes that correspond to a geometry of the system directing the ionizing radiation toward the subject, wherein the at least two axes of the cumulative dose incident map comprise a graphic illustration of a horizontal axis to represent varied positions of a gantry in support of a source of the ionizing radiation with respect to a left/right anterior oblique (LAO/RAO) position of the exposed subject and a graphic illustration of a vertical axis that represents a cranial and caudal position of the gantry;
• and
• a graphic representation of a first distribution of radiation dose to the exposed subject relative to the at least two axes, wherein the graphic representation comprises a second distribution of a number of events with the system directing the ionizing radiation where the ionizing radiation directed to the exposed subject exceeds the total radiation dose threshold, and wherein the graphic representation comprises a third distribution of radiation dose to the exposed subject relative to a variance in source to image distance (SID) of the system directing the ionizing radiation.