Quality Management in the Imaging Sciences

Completely updated, this text provides a basic description of quality management and explains why it is so important to imaging technology. Step-by-step procedures with full-size evaluation forms explain how to understand and implement proper evaluation and documentation of quality assurance and quality control. Useful features include appendices with a review of radiographic quality factors and a glossary with definitions of all the bold-faced terms from the text. A companion CD includes mock Registry exams, sample documentation forms, lab experiments, and critical thinking questions.

• Cross-platform CD includes more than 300 practice exam questions for the ARRT advanced certification examination in quality management, 25 full-sized sample documentation forms, 27 student experiments, and questions for analysis and critical thinking in each chapter.
• Student experiments on CD allow instructors to modify experiments to their own needs, and let students complete answers on the computer and print out.
• Special icon indicates current federal standards, highlighting the most up-to-date quality management information available.
• All imaging sciences are covered, devoting quality management chapters on to fluoroscopy, CT, MRI, sonography, and mammography.
• Step-by-step quality management procedures with full-sized sample evaluation forms offer detailed instructions on how to evaluate equipment and document results for CT, MRI, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine.
• Student-friendly features include learning objectives, chapter outlines, key terms (with definitions in glossary), student experiments on CD-ROM, and review questions at the end of each chapter (answers are located at the end of the text).

• Updated coverage of computed and direct radiography, direct radiography artifacts, and HIPAA, providing the most current information available ― all in one place.
• Coverage of practical applications of quality management tools and procedures.
• Updated information on darkroom disease and on image processing, now that film is used less often.
• Coverage of sensitometric testing and daylight systems.
• Updated chapters on equipment quality control to reflect most current FDA, ACR, and AAPM procedure.
• Updated mock exams to reflect the latest ARRT exam content specifications.