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The FirstCall system is another handy bit of kit for testing ultrasound transducers (or, probes if you insist).

I’ve also come across this nice link to do with ultrasound problems.

In modern PACS systems, LCD screens of 3Mp resolution or better is the norm, producing a resolution much better than could ever have been achieved in CRT (price for price). Engineer led QA is takes place every 3 months, mainly to check luminescence, and to ensure that pairs of screens are matched to ensure that the Radiologist has identical viewing conditions on both of his viewing screens. Further, pairs of screens are matched at manufacture to further increase true image accuracy.

The individual Radiologist has the ability to set himself "default display protocols" DDPs for short, that allows him to "map" his personal image viewing preferences for each body part, and these are automatically applied as he selects each study to report. This includes all modality types.

Feedback from Radiologists indicates that image viewing quality and therefore reporting rates are greatly improved. Radiographers are responsible for QAing their own images (for image capture quality, not PACS), for which they are provided with a PACS technician workstation

PACS rocks! Not.

Here is an up-to-date *link.

And now we have:- ProbeHunter (here's the story)!

* Prompted by a PM asking if I knew anyone who used this nice test kit. I saw it in use eleven years ago (and very impressive it was, too); but I'm very much "out of the loop" these days.