Dear Digital X-Ray Insider,
In this edition of the Digital X-Ray Insider, we bring you news from New Mexico, where researchers have developed software that they hope will take some of the pain out of computed radiography (CR) quality assurance.
The University of New Mexico (UNM) developed its CR.QA application as a way to analyze factors such as exposure indices and reject rates among CR readers distributed across seven buildings. The software offers an easier and more automated method than querying QA parameters at each individual CR reader, and the UNM group has tweaked the application to enable it to track the reject rates of individual technologists.
Ultimately, they hope to develop CR.QA into a cross-platform application that can perform QA on both CR and flat-panel digital radiography systems. Learn more about their work in this issue's Insider Exclusive, which you can reach by clicking here.
In other news in the community, there was a little meeting earlier this month where a few talks on radiology were presented ... you may have heard of it. Check in the community for this coverage:
- A chest x-ray computer-aided detection (CAD) application that didn't necessarily improve reader performance
- A study from pediatric radiologists who found radiography to be a good tool for finding wayward beverage can tabs that had been accidentally ingested
- An electronic poster presentation that tested the ability of technologists to pick the best time to acquire images of crying children
As the year draws to a close, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support of the Digital X-Ray Community throughout the year, and to wish you and yours a happy and safe holiday season.
