Quality Assessment of Mobile Fluoroscope Fleet for Budget and Resource Planning

Abstract Archives of the RSNA, 2014

PHS135

Quality Assessment of Mobile Fluoroscope Fleet for Budget and Resource Planning

Scientific Posters

Presented on November 30, 2014
Presented as part of PHS-SUB: Physics Sunday Poster Discussions

Participants

Jaydev Kardam Dave PhD, MS, Presenter: Nothing to Disclose

Eric Laurence Gingold PhD, Abstract Co-Author: Nothing to Disclose

CONCLUSION

Routine performance evaluations by a medical physicist can provide valuable data for imaging equipment budgeting and resource planning, and avenues for data-driven decision making for such tasks.

BACKGROUND

Fifteen mobile c-arm fluoroscopes (nine 9” x-ray image intensifiers (XRII) and six 12” XRIIs) at a tertiary healthcare center were evaluated. Five of these units (four 9" XRII and one 12" XRII) were to be identified for replacement. An ojective criteria was developed to guide the selection of the units to be replaced. Improvement in the variation within the fleet was assessed after replacement with five new XRII units.

Cite This Abstract

Dave, J, Gingold, E, Quality Assessment of Mobile Fluoroscope Fleet for Budget and Resource Planning. Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14045681.html