Journal ArticleJ 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJ 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · December 2016
BackgroundNew 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 re ...
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Journal ArticleMed 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJ 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 ...
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Journal ArticleMed 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 ...
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