Quality Control

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 4D radiomics: impact of 4D-CBCT image quality on radiomic analysis. 
  • A critical appraisal and comparison of the quality and recommendations of glaucoma clinical practice guidelines. 
  • A first step toward understanding best practices in leadership training in undergraduate medical education: a systematic review. 
  • A genome-wide search for linkage to asthma phenotypes in the genetics of asthma international network families: evidence for a major susceptibility locus on chromosome 2p. 
  • A kit method for the high level synthesis of [211At]MABG. 
  • A longitudinal replicate study of immunosuppressive drugs: a College of American Pathologists study. 
  • A method for characterizing and matching CT image quality across CT scanners from different manufacturers. 
  • A methodology for image quality evaluation of advanced CT systems. 
  • A new generation of crystallographic validation tools for the protein data bank. 
  • A novel beamformer design method for medical ultrasound. Part I: Theory. 
  • A novel beamformer design method for medical ultrasound. Part II: Simulation results. 
  • A novel technique for VMAT QA with EPID in cine mode on a Varian TrueBeam linac. 
  • A panel of MHC class I restricted viral peptides for use as a quality control for vaccine trial ELISPOT assays. 
  • A planning quality evaluation tool for prostate adaptive IMRT based on machine learning. 
  • A predictive approach to nutrient criteria. 
  • A quality control program within a clinical trial Consortium for PCR protocols to detect Plasmodium species. 
  • A role for biological optimization within the current treatment planning paradigm. 
  • A study of clinicians' responses to abnormal laboratory data as a function of diagnostic related group and test classification by College of American Pathologists criteria. 
  • A technique optimization protocol and the potential for dose reduction in digital mammography. 
  • A user's guide to the encyclopedia of DNA elements (ENCODE). 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms-Suspicion of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Palpable Abdominal Mass-Suspected Neoplasm. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Penetrating Trauma-Lower Abdomen and Pelvis. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Post-Treatment Follow-up and Active Surveillance of Clinically Localized Renal Cell Cancer. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Post-Treatment Surveillance of Bladder Cancer. 
  • AI-guided parameter optimization in inverse treatment planning. 
  • AIUM practice guideline for the performance of an ultrasound examination of the abdomen and/or retroperitoneum. 
  • Accuracy of inhomogeneity correction in photon radiotherapy from CT scans with different settings. 
  • Accuracy of references in general readership nursing journals. 
  • Adaptive portal CT reconstruction: a simulation study. 
  • Algorithm and performance of a clinical IMRT beam-angle optimization system. 
  • Ambient illumination revisited: a new adaptation-based approach for optimizing medical imaging reading environments. 
  • American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and American College of Radiology (ACR) practice guideline for the transperineal permanent brachytherapy of prostate cancer. 
  • American Society of Pediatric Nephrology position paper on linking reimbursement to quality of care. 
  • An evaluation of analytic goals for assays of drugs: a College of American Pathologists Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Survey Study. 
  • An image-based technique to assess the perceptual quality of clinical chest radiographs. 
  • An investigation of the accuracy of an IMRT dose distribution using two- and three-dimensional dosimetry techniques. 
  • Analysis of DNA damage and repair in nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of animal cells using quantitative PCR. 
  • Analysis of serum metabolic profiles in women with endometrial cancer and controls in a population-based case-control study. 
  • Analysis of the autism chromosome 2 linkage region: GAD1 and other candidate genes. 
  • Analysis of the real EADGENE data set: comparison of methods and guidelines for data normalisation and selection of differentially expressed genes (open access publication). 
  • Analytical Similarity Assessment in Biosimilar Studies. 
  • Analytical performance and clinical utility of a direct LDL-cholesterol assay in a hyperlipidemic pediatric population. 
  • Analyzing the effect of data quality on the accuracy of clinical decision support systems: a computer simulation approach. 
  • Antigen-specific B cell detection reagents: use and quality control. 
  • Application of singular value decomposition to the analysis of time-resolved macromolecular x-ray data. 
  • Assessing immunophenotyping performance: proficiency-validation for adopting improved flow cytometry methods. 
  • Assessing the Quality of Abstracts in Randomized Controlled Trials Published in High Impact Cardiovascular Journals. 
  • Assessing the consistency of traditional Chinese medicine with multiple correlative active components. 
  • Assessment of a computerized quantitative quality control tool for whole slide images of kidney biopsies. 
  • Assessment of display performance for medical imaging systems: executive summary of AAPM TG18 report. 
  • Assessment of water quality management with a systematic qualitative uncertainty analysis. 
  • Automated Early Identification of an Excessive Air-in-Oil X-ray Tube Artifact That Mimics Acute Cerebral Infarct. 
  • Automated analysis for free and short-chain acylcarnitine in plasma with a centrifugal analyzer. 
  • Automated characterization of perceptual quality of clinical chest radiographs: validation and calibration to observer preference. 
  • Automated quality control assessment of clinical chest images. 
  • Automated quality control in nuclear medicine using the structured noise index. 
  • Boiler Briquette Coal versus Raw Coal: Part II-Energy, Greenhouse Gas, and Air Quality Implications. 
  • Can we eliminate placebo in ALS clinical trials? 
  • Changes of plasma vWF level in response to the improvement of air quality: an observation of 114 healthy young adults. 
  • Changes to resident call and the dilution of education. 
  • Citizen Science as a New Tool in Dog Cognition Research 
  • Clinical chemistry outside laboratories: report of a second survey. 
  • Clinical genomic testing: getting it right. 
  • Clinical practice guideline: management of sinusitis. 
  • Clinical quality in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Co-existence of vascular disease in different arterial beds: Peripheral artery disease and carotid artery stenosis--Data from Life Line Screening(®). 
  • Comparison of 2D and 3D gamma analyses. 
  • Confirmation of visual field abnormalities in the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Group. 
  • Corneoscleral rim cultures: lack of utility and implications for clinical decision-making and infection prevention in the care of patients undergoing corneal transplantation. 
  • Crafting a national agenda for nursing education research. 
  • Cystic resolution: a performance metric for ultrasound imaging systems. 
  • Cytologic features of adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified, in conventional smears: comparison of cases that performed poorly with those that performed well in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Cytologic features of squamous cell carcinoma in conventional smears: comparison of cases that performed poorly with those that performed well in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Data standard ≠ data quality. 
  • De novo assembly using low-coverage short read sequence data from the rice pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. oryzae. 
  • Defining quality for distal pancreatectomy: does the laparoscopic approach protect patients from poor quality outcomes? 
  • Design and implementation of a practical quality control program for dual-energy CT. 
  • Designing and implementing sample and data collection for an international genetics study: the Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium (T1DGC). 
  • Determination of alfentanil and noralfentanil in human plasma by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. 
  • Determination of l-alpha-acetylmethadol, l-alpha-noracetylmethadol and l-alpha-dinoracetylmethadol in plasma by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. 
  • Determination of optimal graft lengths for posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction--a theoretical analysis. 
  • Development and characterization of a vitreous mimicking material for radiation force imaging. 
  • Development and implementation of a proficiency testing program for Luminex bead-based cytokine assays. 
  • Development and implementation of an international proficiency testing program for a neutralizing antibody assay for HIV-1 in TZM-bl cells. 
  • Development and validation of a high-throughput stereoselective LC-MS/MS assay for bupropion, hydroxybupropion, erythrohydrobupropion, and threohydrobupropion in human plasma. 
  • Development of a contemporary globally diverse HIV viral panel by the EQAPOL program. 
  • Development of a standardized susceptibility test for campylobacter with quality-control ranges for ciprofloxacin, doxycycline, erythromycin, gentamicin, and meropenem. 
  • Development of interpretive criteria and quality control limits for macrolide and clindamycin susceptibility testing of Streptococcus pneumoniae. 
  • Differential interference contrast microscopy using light-emitting diode illumination in conjunction with dual optical traps. 
  • Diffusion MRI quality control and functional diffusion map results in ACRIN 6677/RTOG 0625: a multicenter, randomized, phase II trial of bevacizumab and chemotherapy in recurrent glioblastoma. 
  • Diode-based transmission detector for IMRT delivery monitoring: a validation study. 
  • Do proficiency test results correlate with the work performance of screeners who screen Papanicolaou smears? 
  • Dosimetry tools and techniques for IMRT. 
  • Dual-energy contrast-enhanced breast tomosynthesis: optimization of beam quality for dose and image quality. 
  • Edge displacement field-based classification for improved detection of polyps in CT colonography. 
  • Effect of Release of the First Pediatric Appropriate Use Criteria on Transthoracic Echocardiogram Ordering Practice. 
  • Effective dose efficiency: an application-specific metric of quality and dose for digital radiography. 
  • Effects of processing conditions on mammographic image quality. 
  • Electronic results management in pediatric ambulatory care: qualitative assessment. 
  • Endoscopy unit efficiency: quality redefined. 
  • Establishing a framework for improving the quality of clinical and translational research. 
  • Establishing a malaria diagnostics centre of excellence in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • Establishment and maintenance of a PBMC repository for functional cellular studies in support of clinical vaccine trials. 
  • Establishment of stably EBV-transformed cell lines from residual clinical blood samples for use in performance evaluation and quality assurance in molecular genetic testing. 
  • Evaluating the evidence: statistical methods in randomized controlled trials in the urological literature. 
  • Evaluation and appraisal of randomized controlled trials in myeloma. 
  • Evaluation and use of epidemiological evidence for environmental health risk assessment: WHO guideline document. 
  • Evaluation of a 2D diode array for IMRT quality assurance. 
  • Evaluation of a quality control phantom for digital chest radiography. 
  • Evaluation of serum protein profiling by surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for the detection of prostate cancer: I. Assessment of platform reproducibility. 
  • Evaluation of two objective methods to optimize kVp and personnel exposure using a digital indirect flat panel detector and simulated veterinary patients. 
  • Evidence-based guidelines are equivalent to a liberal computed tomography scan protocol for initial patient evaluation but are associated with decreased computed tomography scan use, cost, and radiation exposure. 
  • Fabrication of high quality carbon nanotubes with a simple ethanol-assisted arc discharge process. 
  • Factors affecting increasing radiation dose for mammography in North Carolina from 1997 through 2001: an analysis of Food and Drug Administration annual surveys. 
  • Fate of flame retardants and the antimicrobial agent triclosan in planted and unplanted biosolid-amended soils. 
  • Fibrinogen content of low-volume cryoprecipitate. 
  • Fluorine-18 Labeling of the HER2-Targeting Single-Domain Antibody 2Rs15d Using a Residualizing Label and Preclinical Evaluation. 
  • FreeSurfer-based segmentation of hippocampal subfields: A review of methods and applications, with a novel quality control procedure for ENIGMA studies and other collaborative efforts. 
  • General considerations for lung function testing. 
  • General guidelines for clinical bacteriology. Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Food and Drug Administration. 
  • Genome-wide association study of subtype-specific epithelial ovarian cancer risk alleles using pooled DNA. 
  • Genotyping Array Design and Data Quality Control in the Million Veteran Program. 
  • Global quality imaging: emerging issues. 
  • Glocal clinical registries: pacemaker registry design and implementation for global and local integration--methodology and case study. 
  • Guidelines for quality assurance in multicenter trials: a position paper. 
  • Heparin therapy during cardiopulmonary bypass in children requires ongoing quality control. 
  • High-resolution echo-planar fMRI of human visual cortex at 3.0 tesla. 
  • How accurate are references in nursing journals? 
  • Human IgG2 constant region enhances in vivo stability of anti-tenascin antibody 81C6 compared with its murine parent. 
  • Human biospecimen research: experimental protocol and quality control tools. 
  • Identification of Novel Mast Cell Activators Using Cell-Based High-Throughput Screening. 
  • Identification of poorly performing transplant centers using the UNOS center-specific data. 
  • Image quality in two phosphor-based flat panel digital radiographic detectors. 
  • Imaging system QA of a medical accelerator, Novalis Tx, for IGRT per TG 142: our 1 year experience. 
  • Impact of bioinformatic procedures in the development and translation of high-throughput molecular classifiers in oncology. 
  • Implementation of Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) guidelines within the External Quality Assurance Program Oversight Laboratory (EQAPOL). 
  • Improved peak detection in mass spectrum by incorporating continuous wavelet transform-based pattern matching. 
  • Improving the quality of reporting of randomized controlled trials. The CONSORT statement. 
  • In-Depth Characterization and Validation of Human Urine Metabolomes Reveal Novel Metabolic Signatures of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms. 
  • Inclusion of a sensitivity control to add a quality-control parameter and improve reproducibility in BCR, immunoglobulin, and T-cell receptor gene-rearrangement studies. 
  • Increasing the Availability and Quality of Donor Eyes for Research. 
  • Independent verification of gantry angle for pre-treatment VMAT QA using EPID. 
  • Influence of beta-blocker continuation or withdrawal on outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure: findings from the OPTIMIZE-HF program. 
  • Information-theoretic CAD system in mammography: entropy-based indexing for computational efficiency and robust performance. 
  • Instrumentation and practice standards for electrocardiographic monitoring in special care units. A report for health professionals by a Task Force of the Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association. 
  • Intensity-modulated radiotherapy optimization with gEUD-guided dose-volume objectives. 
  • Intensive Training and Real-Time Quality Control by a Physiology Core Laboratory: Lessons From DEFINE-PCI. 
  • Interference from lipemia in cell count by hematology analyzers. 
  • Interlaboratory comparison of results of susceptibility testing with caspofungin against Candida and Aspergillus species. 
  • International Workshop on Standardization in Clinical Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Measurements: proceedings and recommendations. 
  • International workshop on standardization in clinical MRS measurements: proceedings and recommendations. 
  • Interpretive criteria and quality control for antimicrobial susceptibility tests of levofloxacin. 
  • Interpretive criteria and quality control limits for ceftibuten disk susceptibility tests. Collaborative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Group. 
  • Interpretive criteria and quality control parameters for determining bacterial susceptibility to fosfomycin tromethamine. 
  • Interpretive criteria and quality control parameters for testing bacterial susceptibility to the fluoroquinolone PD131628. 
  • Introduction to a Special Issue of the Journal of Immunological Methods: Building global resource programs to support HIV/AIDS clinical trial studies. 
  • Kilovoltage cone-beam CT: comparative dose and image quality evaluations in partial and full-angle scan protocols. 
  • Laboratory Accuracy Improvement in the UK NEQAS Leucocyte Immunophenotyping Immune Monitoring Program: An Eleven-Year Review via Longitudinal Mixed Effects Modeling. 
  • Largazole pharmacokinetics in rats by LC-MS/MS. 
  • Large sample test of defibrillation waveform sensitivity. 
  • Large-Scale Exome-wide Association Analysis Identifies Loci for White Blood Cell Traits and Pleiotropy with Immune-Mediated Diseases. 
  • Leukopak PBMC sample processing for preparing quality control material to support proficiency testing programs. 
  • Markerless lung tumor tracking and trajectory reconstruction using rotational cone-beam projections: a feasibility study. 
  • Measurement of felbamate by wide-bore capillary gas chromatography and flame ionization detection. 
  • Measuring the significance of field validation in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Cervicovaginal Cytology: how good are the experts? 
  • Measuring the significance of participant evaluation of acceptability of cases in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Medical device surveillance world-wide. 
  • Medical physics 3.0 versus 1.0: A case study in digital radiography quality control. 
  • Methods for precise sizing, automated binning of alleles, and reduction of error rates in large-scale genotyping using fluorescently labeled dinucleotide markers. FUSION (Finland-U.S. Investigation of NIDDM Genetics) Study Group. 
  • Microarray gene expression profiling during the segmentation phase of zebrafish development. 
  • Mixture model normalization for non-targeted gas chromatography/mass spectrometry metabolomics data. 
  • MolProbity: all-atom structure validation for macromolecular crystallography. 
  • Molecular characterization and multilaboratory evaluation of Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 51299 for quality control of screening tests for vancomycin and high-level aminoglycoside resistance in enterococci. 
  • Monitoring and ensuring safety during clinical research. 
  • Multisite reliability of cognitive BOLD data. 
  • Novel transmit protection scheme for ultrasound systems. 
  • Nutrient profiles in the everglades: examination along the eutrophication gradient. 
  • Observations on the Effects of Residualization and Dehalogenation on the Utility of N-Succinimidyl Ester Acylation Agents for Radioiodination of the Internalizing Antibody Trastuzumab. 
  • On the establishment of equivalence acceptance criterion in analytical similarity assessment. 
  • Optical coherence tomography grading reproducibility during the Comparison of Age-related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials. 
  • Optimal apodization design for medical ultrasound using constrained least squares part I: theory. 
  • Optimal apodization design for medical ultrasound using constrained least squares part II: simulation results. 
  • Optimal visual perception and detection of oral cavity neoplasia. 
  • Optimization and validation of a neutralizing antibody assay for HIV-1 in A3R5 cells. 
  • Optimization and validation of the TZM-bl assay for standardized assessments of neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1. 
  • Optimized approach to decision fusion of heterogeneous data for breast cancer diagnosis. 
  • Optimizing cardiac MR imaging: practical remedies for artifacts. 
  • Patient-specific quantification of image quality: An automated method for measuring spatial resolution in clinical CT images. 
  • Pediatric Appropriate Use Criteria Implementation Project: A Multicenter Outpatient Echocardiography Quality Initiative. 
  • Performance evaluation of computed tomography systems: Summary of AAPM Task Group 233. 
  • Phase aberration correction in medical ultrasound using speckle brightness as a quality factor. 
  • Photodegradation pathways of nonabrominated diphenyl ethers, 2-ethylhexyltetrabromobenzoate and di(2-ethylhexyl)tetrabromophthalate: identifying potential markers of photodegradation. 
  • Planning, delivery, and quality assurance of intensity-modulated radiotherapy using dynamic multileaf collimator: a strategy for large-scale implementation for the treatment of carcinoma of the prostate. 
  • Point/Counterpoint. A 3D-conformal technique is better than IMRT or VMAT for lung SBRT. 
  • Point/counterpoint: TG-142 is unwarranted for IGRT QA. 
  • Policy guidelines for the utilization of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections: the UNC SPORE experience. University of North Carolina Specialized Program of Research Excellence. 
  • Practical Considerations in the Design and Use of Immunologically Active Fibrillar Peptide Assemblies. 
  • Practical Issues in Clinical Inspection Process. 
  • Practice-based Research Network Research Good Practices (PRGPs): Summary of Recommendations. 
  • Precision and accuracy of a transportable dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry unit for bone mineral measurements in guinea pigs. 
  • Predicting the frequency of water quality standard violations: a probabilistic approach for TMDL development. 
  • Probability lower bounds for USP/NF tests. 
  • Production and quality control assessment of a GLP-grade immunotoxin, D2C7-(scdsFv)-PE38KDEL, for a phase I/II clinical trial. 
  • Production and validation of durable, high quality standardized malaria microscopy slides for teaching, testing and quality assurance during an era of declining diagnostic proficiency. 
  • Progressive Cactus is a multiple-genome aligner for the thousand-genome era. 
  • Properties of acoustical speckle in the presence of phase aberration. Part I: First order statistics. 
  • Properties of acoustical speckle in the presence of phase aberration. Part II: Correlation lengths. 
  • Protocol for fast scRNA-seq raw data processing using scKB and non-arbitrary quality control with COPILOT. 
  • Quality Control Practices for Chemistry and Immunochemistry in a Cohort of 21 Large Academic Medical Centers. 
  • Quality Control: Hand and Glove Sanitizing in Sterile Compounding, Part 2. 
  • Quality Improvement Initiatives to Assess and Improve PET/CT Injection Infiltration Rates at Multiple Centers. 
  • Quality assurance and training procedures for computer-aided detection and diagnosis systems in clinical use. 
  • Quality assurance of metabolomics. 
  • Quality assurance program for peripheral blood mononuclear cell cryopreservation. 
  • Quality control and reference guidelines for CLSI broth microdilution method (M38-A document) for susceptibility testing of anidulafungin against molds. 
  • Quality control and reference guidelines for CLSI broth microdilution susceptibility method (M 38-A document) for amphotericin B, itraconazole, posaconazole, and voriconazole. 
  • Quality control guidelines for amphotericin B, Itraconazole, posaconazole, and voriconazole disk diffusion susceptibility tests with nonsupplemented Mueller-Hinton Agar (CLSI M51-A document) for nondermatophyte Filamentous Fungi. 
  • Quality control in the flow cytometric measurement of T-lymphocyte subsets: the multicenter AIDS cohort study experience. The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study Group. 
  • Quality control limits for ampicillin, carbenicillin, mezlocillin, and piperacillin disk diffusion susceptibility tests: a collaborative study. 
  • Quality control of the nutritional component of the Growth Failure in Children with Renal Diseases Study. 
  • Quality control phantom for digital chest radiography. 
  • Quality control, analysis and secure sharing of Luminex® immunoassay data using the open source LabKey Server platform. 
  • Quality of reporting randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the nursing literature: application of the consolidated standards of reporting trials (CONSORT) 
  • Quantification of glycosaminoglycans in urine by isotope-dilution liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. 
  • Quantifying the effect of intrafraction motion during breast IMRT planning and dose delivery. 
  • Quantitative Approach to Failure Mode and Effect Analysis for Linear Accelerator Quality Assurance. 
  • Quantitative comparison of noise texture across CT scanners from different manufacturers. 
  • Quantitative evaluation of noise reduction strategies in dual-energy imaging. 
  • Questionnaires for outcome expectancy, self-regulation, and behavioral expectation for resistance training among young-old adults: development and preliminary validity. 
  • RCA2: a scalable supervised clustering algorithm that reduces batch effects in scRNA-seq data. 
  • Radiation force imaging of viscoelastic properties with reduced artifacts. 
  • Radiation protection of patients in diagnostic radiology: status of practice in five Eastern-European countries, based on IAEA project. 
  • Rapid diagnosis of phenylketonuria by quantitative analysis for phenylalanine and tyrosine in neonatal blood spots by tandem mass spectrometry. 
  • Recommendations of the wwPDB NMR Validation Task Force. 
  • Reconsidering quality. 
  • Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce in nursing: from evidence to best practices to policy. 
  • Relationship of Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA) study: study design, methods and quality assurance/control results. 
  • Relationships of Indoor, Outdoor, and Personal Air (RIOPA). Part I. Collection methods and descriptive analyses. 
  • Reperfusion in waiting: what queue should we join? 
  • Report of AAPM Task Group 162: Software for planar image quality metrology. 
  • Results of an ELISPOT proficiency panel conducted in 11 laboratories participating in international human immunodeficiency virus type 1 vaccine trials. 
  • Results of the cord blood transplantation (COBLT) study unrelated donor banking program. 
  • Retrospective Analysis of Quality Control Data Using Pooled Blood to Compare Agreement within Two Models of Blood Gas Analyzers. 
  • Risk assessment and economic impact analysis of the implementation of new European legislation on radiopharmaceuticals in Italy: the case of the new monograph chapter Compounding of Radiopharmaceuticals (PHARMEUROPA, Vol. 23, No. 4, October 2011). 
  • SAQC: SNP array quality control. 
  • Safety, dosing, and pharmaceutical quality for studies that evaluate medicinal products (including biological products) in neonates. 
  • Sample size requirement in analytical studies for similarity assessment. 
  • Selection of strains for quality assessment of the disk induction method for detection of inducible clindamycin resistance in Staphylococci: a CLSI collaborative study. 
  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program. 
  • Serum levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in foam recyclers and carpet installers working in the United States. 
  • Setting objective thresholds for rare event detection in flow cytometry. 
  • Should patients in quality-improvement activities have the same protections as participants in research studies? 
  • Simple high-performance liquid chromatographic method to monitor vigabatrin, and preliminary review of concentrations determined in epileptic patients. 
  • Simplified skipped phase encoding and edge deghosting (SPEED) for imaging sparse objects with applications to MRA. 
  • Size-specific optimization of CT protocols based on minimum detectability. 
  • Sources of variability: a College of American Pathologists Therapeutic Drug Monitoring study. 
  • Standardisation of the measurement of lung volumes. 
  • Standardization of Spirometry, 1994 Update. American Thoracic Society. 
  • Statistical challenges in preprocessing in microarray experiments in cancer. 
  • Statistical methods for the assessment of EQAPOL proficiency testing: ELISpot, Luminex, and Flow Cytometry. 
  • Statistical methods in SUPPORT. 
  • Statistical methods in metabolomics. 
  • Statistical quality control process for traditional Chinese medicine. 
  • Storage characteristics of multiple-donor pooled red blood cells compared to single-donor red blood cell units. 
  • Synthetic elevation beamforming and image acquisition capabilities using an 8 x 128 1.75D array. 
  • Systematic Error Removal Using Random Forest for Normalizing Large-Scale Untargeted Lipidomics Data. 
  • Task Group 142 report: quality assurance of medical accelerators. 
  • Task Group 174 Report: Utilization of [18 F]Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography ([18 F]FDG-PET) in Radiation Therapy. 
  • Technical Note: A dose calculation framework for dynamic electron arc radiotherapy (DEAR) using VirtuaLinac Monte Carlo simulation tool. 
  • Technical note: rapid prototyping of 3D grid arrays for image guided therapy quality assurance. 
  • Technologic advances for evaluation of cervical cytology: is newer better? 
  • The 2012/2013 ABRF Proteomic Research Group Study: Assessing Longitudinal Intralaboratory Variability in Routine Peptide Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analyses. 
  • The Alzheimer's Association external quality control program for cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers. 
  • The Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) multi-site quality assurance program for cryopreserved human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. 
  • The College of American Pathologists Biorepository Accreditation Program: Results from the First 5 Years. 
  • The External Quality Assurance Oversight Laboratory (EQAPOL) proficiency program for IFN-gamma enzyme-linked immunospot (IFN-γ ELISpot) assay. 
  • The FDA in the 21st Century: How Is the FDA Responding to the New World? A Focus on Cardiovascular Drug Development. 
  • The Gene Ontology (GO) project in 2006. 
  • The Gene Ontology: enhancements for 2011. 
  • The Immunology Quality Assessment Proficiency Testing Program for CD3⁺4⁺ and CD3⁺8⁺ lymphocyte subsets: a ten year review via longitudinal mixed effects modeling. 
  • The Impact of a Rigorous Quality Program on 3D Echocardiography Data Quality in an International Multisite Randomized Trial. 
  • The Veterans Affairs Learners' Perceptions Survey: the foundation for educational quality improvement. 
  • The challenge of systematic reviews of diagnostic and staging studies in cancer. 
  • The clinical value of qualitative peripheral blood leukocyte changes. 
  • The delivery of IMRT with a single physical modulator for multiple fields: a feasibility study for paranasal sinus cancer. 
  • The fragility of the U.S. vaccine supply. 
  • The impact of fluctuations in intensity patterns on the number of monitor units and the quality and accuracy of intensity modulated radiotherapy. 
  • The importance of consistent, high-quality acute myocardial infarction and heart failure care results from the American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines Program. 
  • The metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 antagonist fenobam is analgesic and has improved in vivo selectivity compared with the prototypical antagonist 2-methyl-6-(phenylethynyl)-pyridine. 
  • The quality control of medical gases. 
  • The role of biostatistics in the prevention, detection and treatment of fraud in clinical trials. 
  • The use of dried blood spot samples in the diagnosis of lysosomal storage disorders--current status and perspectives. 
  • Those in gene therapy should pay closer attention to lessons from hyperthermia. 
  • To my friend in echocardiography. 
  • Total quality improvement in the IVF laboratory: choosing indicators of quality. 
  • Toward development of a comprehensive external quality assurance program for polyfunctional intracellular cytokine staining assays. 
  • Two multichannel integrated circuits for neural recording and signal processing. 
  • Two-stage sampling in pharmaceutical applications. 
  • Undertaking positive control studies as part of developmental neurotoxicity testing: a report from the ILSI Research Foundation/Risk Science Institute expert working group on neurodevelopmental endpoints. 
  • Universal screening for Lynch syndrome in uterine cancer patients: A quality improvement initiative. 
  • Unjustified restrictions on letters to the editor. 
  • Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Quality and Safety of Radiation Therapy. 
  • Using the Internet to teach consumers about quality care. 
  • Utilizing knowledge from prior plans in the evaluation of quality assurance. 
  • VERITAS?: A time for VERIQAS™ and a new approach to training, education, and the quality assessment of CD4+ T lymphocyte counting (I). 
  • Validation of a quality assessment system for blood gas and electrolyte testing. 
  • Validation of algorithmic CT image quality metrics with preferences of radiologists. 
  • Validation of diet composition for the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension trial. DASH Collaborative Research Group. 
  • Volumetric-modulated arc therapy: effective and efficient end-to-end patient-specific quality assurance. 
  • White paper from the ACR Task Force on Print Media in Radiology. 
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  • Badea, Cristian Tudorel, Professor in Radiology, Biomedical Engineering
  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Charles, Hal Cecil, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology, Radiology
  • Ferrari, Guido, Professor in Surgery, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Gellad, Ziad F., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • O'Daniel, Jennifer Colleen, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Urology, Surgery, Urology
  • Roy Choudhury, Kingshuk, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Toth, Cynthia Ann, Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering
  • Weinhold, Kent James, Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Distinguished Professor of Experimental Surgery, Integrative Immunobiology