QC Principles for PET

Explains QC principles specific to PET including dose calibrator accuracy, camera uniformity, sensitivity checks, timing resolution verification, and cross calibration procedures to ensure quantitative reliability across time and devices.

Routine QC Tests and Frequency

Detailed descriptions of daily, weekly and monthly QC tasks: blank and normalization scans for PET, flood uniformity checks, dose calibrator constancy, PET/CT alignment verification, and recommended logging practices and action thresholds.

QC Documentation and Response

How to log QC results, set action thresholds, escalate out-of-tolerance findings to a medical physicist or vendor service, and document corrective actions and follow up for accreditation and trial records.