quality control in diagnostic imaging— a quality control

Quality Control In Diagnostic Imaging— A Quality Control Cookbook This book was first published in 1983 and is now being provided in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) for use in clinical diagnostic medical physics residency training programs. Diagnostic imaging technology has changed significantly in over 25 years. For example, video tape and disk recorders have been replaced with digital recording systems. Although the technology has changed the types of tests required today are similar to those described in this book. Many other sources of quality control test procedures are now available through the American College of Radiology (Reston, Virginia) at:

http://www.acr.org/SecondaryMainMenuCategories/quality_safety.aspx http://www.acr.org/SecondaryMainMenuCategories/quality_safety/guidelines/tech-standards-mp.aspx http://www.acr.org/SecondaryMainMenuCategories/quality_safety/RadSafety.aspx (includes ACR Quality Control Manuals)

the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (College Park, Maryland) at:

http://aapm.org/pubs/reports/ the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (Bethesda, Maryland)

http://www.ncrppublications.org/Reports/ http://www.ncrppublications.org/Commentaries/

and the International Atomic Energy Agency (Vienna, Austria) at:

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/publications.asp Consequently, this quality control book has not been revised and republished. This PDF version of this book was created by scanning a paper copy of the original book. Consequently, some limitations have been encountered. For example, some figures contain a slight moiré pattern due to the interference between the lithographic screens used to reproduce

the photographs in the original document and the scanner-digitization process. For these we apologize. However, the intended information is reproduced with reasonable fidelity. Since this is a scanned version of the original book, the PDF files are not searchable. Finally, blank pages, i.e., at the end of chapters, have not been included. Hopefully this PDF version will be a valuable resource to those entering the field of clinical diagnostic medical physics.