Scholars@Duke
Jeffrey Nelson

Jeffrey Nelson

Assistant Consulting Professor in the Department of Radiology
Radiology
nelson.jeffrey@duke.edu
2424 Erwin Road, Suite 302, DUMC 2731, Durham, NC 27710
2424 Erwin Road, Suite 302, Durham, NC 27705

Selected Publications

Key Performance Indicators for Quality Imaging Practice: Why, What, and How.

Journal Article J Am Coll Radiol · January 2022 A common trend across health care organizations is the development of key performance indicators (KPIs) for characterizing quality, identifying areas in need of change, and quantifying the impact of change. This article outlines a list of KPIs that can be ... Full text Link to item Cite

Automated quality control in nuclear medicine using the structured noise index.

Journal Article J Appl Clin Med Phys · April 2020 PURPOSE: Daily flood-field uniformity evaluation serves as the central element of nuclear medicine (NM) quality control (QC) programs. Uniformity images are traditionally analyzed using pixel value-based metrics, that is, integral uniformity (IU), which of ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Prognostic value of the cadmium-zinc-telluride camera: A comparison with a conventional (Anger) camera.

Journal Article J Nucl Cardiol · December 2016 BACKGROUND: New multipinhole cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) cameras allow for faster imaging and lower radiation doses for single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) studies, but assessment of prognostic ability is necessary. METHODS AND RESULTS: We ... Full text Link to item Cite

How does c-view image quality compare with conventional 2D FFDM?

Journal Article Med Phys · May 2016 PURPOSE: The FDA approved the use of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) in 2011 as an adjunct to 2D full field digital mammography (FFDM) with the constraint that all DBT acquisitions must be paired with a 2D image to assure adequate interpretative informa ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improved nuclear medicine uniformity assessment with noise texture analysis.

Journal Article J Nucl Med · January 2014 UNLABELLED: Because γ cameras are generally susceptible to environmental conditions and system vulnerabilities, they require routine evaluation of uniformity performance. The metrics for such evaluations are commonly pixel value-based. Although these metri ... Full text Link to item Cite

SU-D-217A-03: Nuclear Medicine Uniformity Assessment Using 2D Noise Power Spectrum.

Journal Article Med Phys · June 2012 PURPOSE: Nuclear medicine quality control programs require daily evaluation for the presence of potential non-uniformities by commonly utilizing a traditional pixel value-based assessment (Integral CFOVUniformity). While this method effectively captures re ... Full text Link to item Cite