Center for Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Medical University Vienna, Austria.
Ultraschall Med. 2012 Dec;33(6):544-9. doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1325347. Epub 2012 Nov 16.
The Technical Quality Assurance group was initiated by the EFSUMB Board in 2007 and met firstly in 2008 to discuss and evaluate methods and procedures published for performing technical quality assurance for diagnostic ultrasound devices. It is the aim of this group of experts to advise the EFSUMB Board of effective and efficacious methods for routine use and to make recommendations regarding the technical aspects of EFSUMB by-law 9, parts 11.6. & 11.7. The group's work focused on new developments and related European projects to establish a common guideline. There is a great need of a well established protocol and dedicated processing software for the performance testing of medical ultrasound equipment. The measurements should be user independent as much as physically possible. Only if these goals are achieved in an international (firstly European) context, the optimal quality of ultrasound imaging can be offered and maintained to the medical community. This guideline aims to offer and summarize suitable procedures and evaluation processes to lend support for an optimal Technical Quality Assurance (TQA) scheme. The content of this guideline was presented to the EFSUMB Board of Directors (delegates) and approved by the EFSUMB Executive Board (ExB) at the regular meeting during EUROSON 2012 in Madrid April 2012.
技术质量保证小组由 EFSUMB 委员会于 2007 年成立，并于 2008 年首次开会，讨论和评估发布的用于诊断超声设备技术质量保证的方法和程序。该专家组的目标是向 EFSUMB 委员会提供常规使用的有效和高效方法，并就 EFSUMB 章程第 9 条、第 11.6 条和第 11.7 条的技术方面提出建议。该小组的工作重点是新的发展和相关的欧洲项目，以建立一个共同的准则。非常需要为医疗超声设备的性能测试制定一个完善的协议和专用处理软件。测量应该尽可能地独立于用户。只有在国际（首先是欧洲）范围内实现这些目标，才能为医疗界提供和维持最佳的超声成像质量。本指南旨在提供和总结合适的程序和评估流程，为最佳技术质量保证（TQA）计划提供支持。本指南的内容已提交给 EFSUMB 理事会（代表），并由 EFSUMB 执行委员会（ExB）在 2012 年 4 月于马德里举行的 EUROSON 2012 年例会上批准。
