Ultrasound Quality Control
Ultrasound Quality Control
A brief guideline for B-mode ultrasound equipment
About the Book
This guideline has the objective to help health and technical professionals to do the basics quality control procedures in diagnostic B-mode ultrasound equipment. Here, are available the main tests such as axial and lateral resolution, dead zone, focal zone, maximum depth, vertical and horizontal distances and others. In summary, the guidelines described here could be found in our free software, which is optimized to all these basic quality control procedures for ultrasound B-mode. This document isn't at the final and absolute version, and anyone who wants to improve any point of this guideline are welcome (as well as the English transcription!).
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Why do we need quality control?
- Quality control schedule
- Baseline reference measurements
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Quality control procedures
- Physical and mechanical inspection
- Image screen monitor set up
- Image uniformity
- Dead zone
- Aims on the vertical plane
- Penetration depth
- Beam profile / Lateral resolution / Focal zone
- Vertical distance measurements
- Horizontal distance measurements
- Axial resolution
- Lateral resolution
- Anechoic masses
- Hyperechoic masses
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References
- Specific phantom manufactures
- Academic papers
- Automatic or semi-automatic computational tool
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