ISSN:
1619-7089
Keywords:
Quality control
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Gamma camera
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Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract Sixteen European countries participated in this WHO-IAEA intercomparison for which transmission CAP (College of American Pathologists) thyroid and IAEA-WHO liver phantoms were used. A total of 257 laboratories submitted 428 image evaluation reports. Overall results showed differences in performance between the various countries but similarities in performance for two gamma camera subgroups defined by year of manufacture, before and after 1980. A unique review of current European liver imaging practice is presented in terms of technical parameters, imaging conditions and evaluation procedures, and quality control procedures. The WHO-IAEA intercomparison demonstrated the need to establish new, or to improve the existing, quality control programmes in certain countries. However, the large number of participating laboratories, 257 compared with 70 in the previous WHO study, (Volodin et al. 1985), shows that these international studies are serving a useful purpose in promoting quality control in nuclear medicine imaging laboratories.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00256623
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