Abstract.
Regular quality control is one of the cornerstones of nuclear medicine and a prerequisite for adequate diagnostic imaging. Many papers have been published on quality control of planar and tomographic imaging systems. Up to now, however, only minor attention has been given to the assessment of the performance of whole body imaging systems. In this paper we present a comprehensive set of test procedures including acceptance testing and regular quality control. It is not our purpose to present a thorough analysis of the methods and results. The selection of the tests is discussed and the tests are described; some results are presented. In addition action thresholds are proposed. The quality control tests can be applied to systems with either a moving detector or a moving imaging table, and to both detectors with a large field of view and detectors with a small field of view. The tests presented in this paper do not require special phantoms or sources other than those used for quality control of stationary gamma cameras. They can be applied for acceptance testing and for performance testing in a regular quality assurance programme.
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Received 13 March and in revised form 21 June 1997
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Blokland, J., Camps, J. & Pauwels, E. Aspects of performance assessment of whole body imaging systems. Eur J Nucl Med 24, 1273–1283 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002590050152
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002590050152