An audit of a hospital-based Doppler ultrasound quality control protocol using a commercial string Doppler phantom

Physica Medica

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 380-384

  Cournane, S ^a   Fagan, A J ^a   Browne, J E ^b  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Doppler; Quality assurance; String phantom; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; IMAGING PHANTOM; INTRINSIC SPECTRAL BROADENING; MAXIMUM VELOCITY ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; MEDICAL AUDIT; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRING DOPPLER PHANTOM; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VELOCITY; DEVICES; HOSPITAL; IMAGE QUALITY; DOPPLER DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER STRING PHANTOM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HOSPITALS; MEDICAL AUDIT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84896078102     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2013.10.001     Document Type: Article

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