Quality Control Procedures

Running a QC Baseline

Per the MQSA, a baseline test must be run when the 8900 is first installed

Test

and must be repeated every time a box of film with a different emulsion

 

number is used. This test sets up a baseline set of film parameter values

 

that shall be used as a standard for comparison in daily quality control

 

tests. Kodak recommends the procedure described below as a means of

 

complying with this regulation.

Procedure for the

The installing field engineer verifies that the 8900 meets its performance

Installing Field Engineer

specifications, runs the baseline test described below, and prints a clinical

 

image of the site's choice. The site's responsible healthcare professional is

 

asked to approve that the 8900 produces an acceptable clinical image. If

 

the image is not acceptable, the field engineer repeats his procedures until

 

the settings for the baseline print produce acceptable clinical images.

Procedure for the QC

After an acceptable installation, the user facility's technologist must repeat

Technologist

the baseline test whenever a change occurs in film lot number.

 

NOTE: The following is an example of a film lot number:

 

020662-0211-A-019. The film emulsion number is underlined.

Baseline Test

1. Apply power to the 8900 and allow it to warm to READY, as indicated

 

on the local panel. Request a Calibration Test Print (see “Requesting a

 

Calibration Test Print” on page 3-19) to put its Automatic Image

 

Quality Control (AIQC) system in control.

 

2. Print two QC Step Wedge test films (see “Requesting a QC Step

 

Wedge” on page 3-20). See the figure on the next page for a sample

 

step wedge.

 

3. Using a densitometer, read and record the density of each step (1

 

through 21) on each of the two test films. (For consistency from film

 

to film, always read density at the center of each wedge.) The QC Step

 

Wedge is positioned on the film to allow for the use of an automatic

 

densitometer such as the X-RiteModel 391 Densitometer for

 

automatic density recordings.

 

NOTE: You can choose to use a clear area on the test films instead of the

 

actual step 1 area to take the “step 1” density reading.

 

4. Determine and record the average of the two densities read for each

 

step.

 

5. Select from the average values calculated from the 21 steps to

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