RIO® Grande Physics Goal:
Is to assist our clients in establishing performance standards consistent with the American College of Radiology (ACR) and the American Association of Physicist in Medicine (AAPM) for Interventional Radiology and Cardiology and to ensure high-quality diagnostic images are obtained and are consistent with the clinical use of the Interventional equipment.
Annual Medical Physics Performance Summary
Annual performance checks of your Interventional system are performed on each unit to include, but not be limited to, the following:
- Integrity of unit assembly
- Collimation and radiation beam alignment
- Fluoroscopic system resolution
- Automatic exposure control system performance
- Image artifacts
- Fluoroscopic phantom image quality
- kVp accuracy and reproducibility
- Linearity of exposure vs. mA
- Exposure reproducibility
- Beam quality assessment (half-value layer)
- Fluoroscopic exposure rates
- Image receptor entrance exposure
- Fluoroscopic alignment test
- Equipment radiation safety functions
- Patient dose monitoring system calibration, if present
- Video and digital monitor performance
