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Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn008
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QUALITY CONTROL MEASUREMENTS FOR FLUOROSCOPY SYSTEMS IN EIGHT COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN THE SENTINEL EU COORDINATION ACTION

J. Zoetelief1,*, F. W. Schultz1, S. Kottou2, L. Gray3, U. O'Connor3, D. Salat4, K. Kepler5, P. Kaplanis6, J. Jankowski7, A. Schreiner8 and J. Vassileva9

1 Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 15, 2629 JB Delft, The Netherlands
2 Department of Medical Physics, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
3 Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, St James's Hospital, Garden Hill House, Dublin 8, Ireland
4 Medicontrol, Stanicna 24, 91105 Trencin, Slovakia
5 Training Centre of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tartu, 4 Tähe Street, 51010 Tartu, Estonia
6 Department of Medical Physics, Nicosia General Hospital, 1700 Nicosia, Cyprus
7 Radiation Protection Department, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, St Teresa 8, Lodz 90-950, Poland
8 Division de la Radioprotection, Villa Louvigny, L-2120 Allee Marconi, Luxembourg
9 National Centre for Radiobiology and Radiation Protection, Laboratory for Quality Control in Radiology, 132 Kliment Ohridsky Blvd, 1756 Sofia, Bulgaria

* Corresponding author: j.zoetelief{at}tudelft.nl

Quality control (QC) is becoming increasingly important in relation to the introduction of digital medical imaging systems using X rays. It was, therefore, decided to organise and perform a trial on image quality and physical measurements. The SENTINEL toolkit for QC measurements of fluoroscopy systems containing equipment and instructions for their use in the assessment of dose and image quality circulated among participants in the trial. The participants reported on their results. In the present contribution, the impact of the trial on the selected protocols is presented. The Medical Physics and Bioengineering protocol appeared to be useful for QC, and also for digital systems. The protocol needs an additional section, or an addition to each section, to state compliance with the requirements. The circular cross-sections of the Leeds test objects need adaptation for rectangular flat panel detector (FPD) systems. Only one participant was able to perform the monitor test using MoniQA. This is due to the fact that assistance is required from the suppliers of the X-ray systems. This problem needs to be solved to apply MoniQA in practice.


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