Implementing digital quality control in a breast center.
Breast imaging centers in the United States are currently transitioning from traditional screen-film mammography to full-field digital mammography. Quality control for full-field digital mammography is more difficult, time consuming, and expensive than for traditional screen-film mammography. Full-field digital mammography quality control is more precise than screen-film mammography quality control at identifying noncompliant components. As per U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements, each manufacturer of full-field digital mammography equipment designs and establishes its own quality control process.
Parikh
Jay
J
Women's Diagnostic Imaging Center, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA. jay.parikh@swedish.org
Fanus
Darlene
D
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States