Estudo comparativo das aplicações dos objetos de teste Eurospin e American College of Radiology no controle de qualidade em ressonância magnética

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Krzyuy, Ariadne Maria
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná; Curitiba; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Biomédica
• Palavras-chave em Português: Imagem de ressonância magnética; Diagnóstico por imagem; Instrumentos e aparelhos médicos - Testes; Padrões de desempenho; Engenharia biomédica; Magnetic resonance imaging; Diagnostic imaging; Medical instruments and apparatus - Testing; Performance standards; Biomedical engineering
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1179

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a method of diagnostic imaging which has advantages over other methods, which caused the number of installed equipment in the large Brazilian centers increased 88% over the past 5 years and about 508% in the last 15 years, which shows the importance of this method as a diagnostic imaging modality. To ensure medical imaging with diagnostic quality, it is necessary that the equipment is monitored for quality of the images they produce. Therefore, in order to maintain the quality of medical images at the highest level and ensure the proper performance of equipment, are implemented Quality Control (QC) programs in MRI. In Brazil, there are few works published discussing the procedures for the QC in MRI and there are no national standards for its regulation. The standardization and recommendation on QC in MRI is restricted to the work of international organizations. The best-known commercially available test objects are the test object (TO) Eurospin and the American College of Radiology (ACR), and several international research groups have published studies on QC in MRI with promising results using these objects. The aim of this work is to study the methodology of use of the test objects Eurospin and ACR, comparing the differences in test implementation, resulting in a guidance material for use of the test objects in the QC routine in MRI. The quality parameters – signal noise ratio (SNR), uniformity, geometric distortion, slice thickness, slice position, high-contrast spatial resolution, percentage of ghost signal and low contrast detection – were evaluated and performed in two MRI equipment of 1.5 T with the test objects ACR and Eurospin. The two MRI systems showed results of all tests within the acceptance criteria. The objectives of this study were achieved, since it was possible to study the methodology of using Eurospin and ACR test objects and compare the performance, and an operational protocol guide for performing the QC in MRI was developed.