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TH‐SAM‐304A‐02: Digital Detector QC, Tips and Problems
Author(s) -
Berns E
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.3182587
Subject(s) - digital mammography , accreditation , medical physics , mammography , medical physicist , computer science , quality (philosophy) , control (management) , digital radiography , medicine , artificial intelligence , medical education , radiology , physics , breast cancer , cancer , quantum mechanics , radiography
Digital mammography has become the technology of choice for breast imaging with several FDA‐approved systems already available and more on the way. Digital detectors in mammography have different characteristics compared to the traditional screen‐film systems and require different quality control tests by the FDA approval process. This lecture is going to discuss the practical issues for the medical physicist who wants to learn the differences in these Quality Control tests and how they impact the mammography facility and ACR accreditation. The lecture will be broken into several parts. The first will review currently available FFDM equipment and their respective Quality Control tests. The second part will compare similar QC tests and discuss the key differences. The third part will look ahead to the new FFDM QC program being developed by the ACR. Learning Objectives: 1. To describe current quality control procedures for FFDM systems. 2. To review the impact of QC on ACR accreditation for FFDM systems. 3. To preview the forthcoming ACR FFDM QC program.