A Pilot Study on the Development of Remote Quality Control of Digital Mammography Systems in the NHS Breast Screening Programme.
In the UK, physicists and radiographers perform routine quality control (QC) of digital mammography equipment at daily, weekly and monthly intervals. The tests performed and tolerances are specified by standard protocols. The manual nature of many of the tests introduces variability due to the posit...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 28; no. 5; pp. 586 - 594 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Oct2015
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