Survey on quality control measurements for nuclear medicine imaging equipment in Finland in 2006

摘要

Routine quality control (QC) is an essential requirement in nuclear medicine (NM) in order toensure optimal functioning of equipment. To harmonise the routine QC of NM imaging equipment inFinnish hospitals (planar gamma cameras, SPECT, coincidence gamma cameras, PET), the Radiationand Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) will publish guidelines on QC in collaboration with severalhospital physicists. Recommendations will be provided on routine QC measurements and on thefrequency of testing. It is also planned to provide recommendations for the acceptance criteria whenassessing different performance parameters for NM imaging equipment. In order to determine whatperformance parameters of NM equipment are currently measured in hospitals, how frequently they aremeasured and what acceptance criteria are used, a survey was carried out on the QC of NM equipmentin Finland during 2006.