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• Records of service and maintenance must be maintained.

• Imaging equipment parameters include:

  • Energy peaking - daily

  • Intrinsic or extrinsic uniformity - daily  

  • Resolution and linearity - weekly  

  • High count calibration floods - monthly  

  • Center of rotation – monthly  

  • Collimator integrity – annually  

  • Preventive maintenance - 6 months, or per manufacturer’s recommendations  

PET Quality Control

• Blank scan - daily

• Normalization – After hardware change or per manufacturer specification  

• Absolute activity calibration for SUV – After hardware change or per manufacturer specification.  

• Preventive maintenance - every 6 months  

Non-Imaging Equipment Quality Control

3.3.1- A policy must exist and be followed for routine inspection and testing of all non-imaging equipment such as dose calibrators, uptake probes, survey meters and glucometers and be in accordance with the federal, state and local requirements. The dose calibrator must be calibrated in accordance with nationally recognized standards or the manufacturers instructions.