Four-Year Experience with a Clinical Ultrasound Quality Control Program

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1350-1357

  Hangiandreou, Nicholas J ^a   Stekel, Scott F ^a   Tradup, Donald J ^a   Gorny, Krzysztof R ^a   King, Deirdre M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Image quality; Performance testing; Quality control; Ultrasound imaging

Indexed keywords

EQUIPMENT FAILURES; FAILURE RATE; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; MECHANICAL INTEGRITY; PERFORMANCE TESTING; SONOGRAPHERS; ULTRASOUND IMAGING;

IMAGE QUALITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCANNING; SOFTWARE TESTING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; MAXIMUM DEPTH OF PENETRATION; MECHANICAL INTEGRITY; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79959839401     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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