title: College of American Pathologists "Series X" program.
abstract: Physical parameters that control detectability of low contrast lesions by current Nuclear Medicine imaging instruments are presented. The findings were derived from statistical analysis of data collected over a period of 6 yr by the Nuclear Medicine Resource Committee of the College of American Pathologists using the external Quality Control technique known as Interlaboratory Comparison.
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards*; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000592:standards*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States