Increasing efficiency in the ACR Digital Mammography QC Manual's DBT Z‐resolution evaluation
Ryan F Fisher, Nicholas B Bevins, Katie W Hulme, Colin Schaeffer · 2026
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Ryan F Fisher, Nicholas B Bevins, Katie W Hulme, and Colin Schaeffer report a two thousand twenty-six study on faster mammography quality checks. The standard manual asks staff to measure many small regions across phantom image slices. That work can mean dozens of measurements per unit.
The team reanalyzed hundreds of surveys from many mammography units. They compared the full multi-speck score with scores from one or two specks alone. Two-speck scores stayed closer to the full result than single-speck ones. Readers in imaging quality control get evidence on trimming a tedious test without drifting far from the manual's baseline.
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| CREATOR | Ryan F Fisher, Nicholas B Bevins, Katie W Hulme, Colin Schaeffer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |