Description

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.

Key Features

• 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).

New to this Edition

• 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.

Companion Products

• Quality Management in the Imaging Sciences - Text and E-Book Package, 3rd Edition

Related Titles

• Sectional Anatomy for Imaging Professionals, 2nd Edition
• Sectional Anatomy Text and Workbook Package, 2nd Edition

Related Links and Downloads

Evolve Courses and Resources - Evolve site

Table of Contents

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Author Information

By Jeffrey Papp, PhD, RT(R) (QM), Professor of Physics and Radiologic Sciences, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL

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