Ultrasound Equipment Quality Assurance
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چکیده
Components of an Ultrasound Quality Assurance Program 257 Quality Assurance and Preventive Maintenance 257 Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms 257 Tissue Properties Represented in Phantoms 257 Typical Quality Assurance Phantom Design 257 Cautions About Phantom Desiccation 258 Basic Quality Control Tests 259 Visual Inspection 259 Transducer Choice 259 System Sensitivity 260 Photography and Gray-Scale Hard Copy 261 Monitor Setup and Recording Devices 261 Routine Quality Assurance of Image Recording 261 Scan Image Uniformity 262 Distance Measurement Accuracy 263 Vertical Distance Measurements 263 Horizontal Distance Measurements 264 Other Important Instrument Quality Assurance Tasks 264 Documentation 264 Spatial Resolution Tests 264 Axial Resolution 264 Lateral Resolution 265 Cautions About Resolution Tests with Discrete Targets 265 Other Test Objects and Phantoms 266 Anechoic Voids 266 Objects of Various Echogenicity 266 Spherical Object Phantom 267 Doppler Testing 267 String Test Objects 267 Doppler Flow Phantoms 267 Electronic Probe Tests 268
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