These documents will help facilities gather and organize information for periodic the site surveys. Some of the most common items that are not found during a survey are the following: Policies for primary source verification, verifying that personnel are not included on the Office of • Inspector General’s exclusion list and a consumer complaint notice that the patients contact information for the ACR (one can be found on our website at . Documentation of initial qualifications, continued education and continued experience for the • interpreting physician and medical physicist. Self-documentation is not acceptable. In the European (EU), the qualifications for interpreting physicians and medical physicists may be found at (add on-line citation here) . . . and other regions, professional health care providers should meet, and maintain, standards set In by their local regulatory authorities for the practice of medicine with unsealed radioactive material. Visual image assessment is performed to assess he adequacy of the acquisition for a quantitative endpoint. Checks for the integrity of the reconstruction include well-defined basal ganglia, nonspecific cortical uptake with sharp boundaries of the cortical edge, and well-defined scalp uptake. Signs of motion include blurring of the boundaries between high uptake areas in the basal ganglia and adjacent regions, e.g. the heads of the caudate may appear too close. Assessment of the quality of the subsequent quantitative analysis is critical, with particular on the accurate anatomic placing of the regions of interest. 3.11.2 Parameter Requirement Shall confirm sufficient counts have been acquired to reconstruct count sufficiency the images properly clear, Shall confirm the margins are sufficiently conspicuous and have conspicuous not been degraded by excessive patient motion. margins Shall confirm that image quality has not been degraded by Excessive motion excessive patient motion. nuclear medicine Proper specialist or Shall confirm that basal ganglia are in the field of view by positioning in nuclear assessing where the top of the head is. FOV radiologist Shall ensure assessment is not confounded by ring artifacts, artifacts artifacts related to too large a radius for COR (i.e., should be <15 cm, or edge artifacts Mis-registration of SPECT/CT or Shall ensure that the attenuation map is visually registered to the discordance of CT map within one reconstructed voxel dimension. Chang’s
These documents will help facilities gather and organize information for periodic the site surveys. Some of the most common items that are not found during a survey are the following: • Policies for primary source verification, verifying that personnel are not included on the Office of Inspector General’s exclusion list and a consumer complaint notice that the patients contact information for the ACR (one can be found on our website at . • Documentation of initial qualifications, continued education and continued experience for the interpreting physician and medical physicist. Self-documentation is not acceptable. In the European (EU), the qualifications for interpreting physicians and medical physicists may be found at (add on-line citation here) . . . In and other regions, professional health care providers should meet, and maintain, standards set by their local regulatory authorities for the practice of medicine with unsealed radioactive material. Visual image assessment is performed to assess he adequacy of the acquisition for a quantitative endpoint. Checks for the integrity of the reconstruction include well-defined basal ganglia, nonspecific cortical uptake with sharp boundaries of the cortical edge, and well-defined scalp uptake. Signs of motion include blurring of the boundaries between high uptake areas in the basal ganglia and adjacent regions, e.g. the heads of the caudate may appear too close. Assessment of the quality of the subsequent quantitative analysis is critical, with particular on the accurate anatomic placing of the regions of interest. 3.11.2 Parameter Requirement count sufficiency nuclear medicine specialist or nuclear radiologist Shall confirm sufficient counts have been acquired to reconstruct the images properly clear, conspicuous margins Shall confirm the margins are sufficiently conspicuous and have not been degraded by excessive patient motion. Excessive motion Shall confirm that image quality has not been degraded by excessive patient motion. Proper positioning in FOV Shall confirm that basal ganglia are in the field of view by assessing where the top of the head is. artifacts Shall ensure assessment is not confounded by ring artifacts, artifacts related to too large a radius for COR (i.e., should be <15 cm, or edge artifacts Mis-registration of SPECT/CT or discordance of Chang’s Shall ensure that the attenuation map is visually registered to the CT map within one reconstructed voxel dimension.
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