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Using a Homogeneity Test as Weekly Quality Control on Digital Mammography Units

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Digital Mammography (IWDM 2006)

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In the Netherlands a number of (screening) trials with digital mammography equipment have been started since 1999. In this paper results from the weekly QC procedure are given. It seems that the homogeneity test as described in the addendum to the European protocol is able to detect detector problems and flat field calibration problems. However, visual inspection remains necessary. For the CR system in the trials the homogeneity test did not find many problems. Either the homogeneity test is not effective and other tests might be more appropriate or this CR system does not have relevant image quality variations and therefore might not require weekly quality control.

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  1. National Expert and Training Centre for Breast Cancer Screening (577), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    R. E. van Engen, M. M. J. Swinkels, L. J. Oostveen, T. D. Geertse & R. Visser

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  1. Division of Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, Stopford Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PT, Manchester

    Susan M. Astley

  2. Wolfson Medical Vision Lab, University of Oxford, UK

    Michael Brady

  3. Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineeering, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PT, Manchester, UK

    Chris Rose

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

    Reyer Zwiggelaar

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van Engen, R.E., Swinkels, M.M.J., Oostveen, L.J., Geertse, T.D., Visser, R. (2006). Using a Homogeneity Test as Weekly Quality Control on Digital Mammography Units. In: Astley, S.M., Brady, M., Rose, C., Zwiggelaar, R. (eds) Digital Mammography. IWDM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4046. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11783237_36

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