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Chapter 11 - Ghosts in the Machine: Quality Control

from Part I - The Basic Stuff

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

Donald W. McRobbie ,
Elizabeth A. Moore ,
Martin J. Graves  and
Martin R. Prince
Donald W. McRobbie
Affiliation:
South Australian Medical Imaging, Adelaide, Australia
Elizabeth A. Moore
Affiliation:
Philips Research Laboratories, The Netherlands
Martin J. Graves
Affiliation:
Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge UK
Martin R. Prince
Affiliation:
Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
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MRI from Picture to Proton , pp. 166 - 182
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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Jackson, EF, Bronskill, MJ, Drost, DJ, et al. (2010) AAPM Report 100: Acceptance Testing and Quality Assurance Procedures for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facilities. College Park, MD: American Association of Physicists in Medicine.Google Scholar
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Of particular interest are the ACR phantoms:Google Scholar
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European Communities Research Project (1995) ‘Quality assessment in in-vivo NMR spectroscopy: results of a concerted research project for the European Economic Community I–IV’. Magn Reson Imaging 13: 117–158.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McRobbie, D and Semple, S (eds) (in preparation) ‘Quality control and artefacts in MRI’.Google Scholar
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NEMA Standards, ‘Determination of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging’. Publication MS 1-2008. www.nema.org/Standards/Pages/Determination-of-Signal-to-Noise-Ratio-in-Diagnostic-Magnetic-Resonance-Imaging.aspxGoogle Scholar
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Further Reading

ACR. www.acr.org/~/media/ACR/Documents/Accreditation/MRI/ClinicalGuide.pdf [accessed 22 March 2015].Google Scholar
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fBIRN tools: www.nitrc.org/projects/bxh_xcede_tools [accessed 2 November 2014].Google Scholar
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McRobbie, DW (1996) ‘The absolute signal-to-noise ratio in MRI acceptance testing’. Br J Radiol 69:1045–1048.Google Scholar
McRobbie, D and Semple, S (eds) (in preparation) Quality Control and Artefacts in MRI. York: Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. www.ipem.ac.uk.Google Scholar
Box ‘National and International Standards’ for details of ACR, IPEM and NEMA standards.Google Scholar

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