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    Electronic Resource
    External quality control of gamma cameras —results of an inter-laboratory comparison study in Austria (1990)
    Springer
    European journal of nuclear medicine 16 (1990), S. 23-28 
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    ISSN: 1619-7089
    Keywords: Quality control ; Gamma camera ; Interlaboratory comparison ; ROC-curve ; Emission phantom
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Some 28 nuclear medicine departments out of a total of 40 participated in a nationwide Austrian interlaboratory comparison of the imaging quality of gamma cameras. The participation was voluntary, and confidentiality of the individual results was guaranteed. The survey was completed within 2 months, employing instructors to administrate the tests. An emission phantom simulating a flood field with non-uniformities was imaged by 43 cameras, and 54 images were evaluated. The test images were read by the participants using a graded rating scale to indicate the probability of the presence of a non-uniformity in the various parts of the image. The rating data were used to construct individual ROC curves for each image. The area under the ROC curve was used as the ranking parameter for image quality. The results show a spread of the ROC areas between 0.6 and 0.99, with a median of 0.81. A correlation was found between the year of installation and the ROC area obtained from the gamma camera, indicating improvements of performance in more recent cameras, which accounts for part of the variation of the ROC areas. The remaining variations are due to differences in the performance of the gamma cameras. Feedback was provided to the participants by describing individual performance with respect to the true structure of the phantom and by comparing this performance with that of the group. A questionnaire accompanying the test phantom yielded information about the practice of routine quality control and about details of the acquisition and analysis of images. The survey demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of interlaboratory comparisons of this type even for a small number of participants. The feedback was found by the participants to be helpful and stimulated awareness of the importance of quality control.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01566008
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    The World Health Organization and International Atomic Energy Agency second interlaboratory comparison study in 16 countries on quality performance of nuclear medicine imaging devices (1988)
    Springer
    European journal of nuclear medicine 13 (1988), S. 495-501 
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    ISSN: 1619-7089
    Keywords: Quality control ; Gamma camera ; Scanner
    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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