Performance Observations of Scanner Qualification of NCI-Designated Cancer Centers: Results From the Centers of Quantitative Imaging Excellence (CQIE) Program

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• 作者：Mark Rosen^a ; Paul E. Kinahan^b ; James F. Gimpel^c ; ^{jgimpel@acr.org} ; Adam Opanowski^c ; Barry A. Siegel^d ; G.Craig Hill^e ; Linda Weiss^f ; Lalitha Shankar^g
• 关键词：Scanner qualification ; cancer imaging ; phantom imaging ; imaging accreditation ; imaging credentialing ; clinical trials
• 刊名：Academic Radiology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：24
• 期：2
• 页码：232-245
• 全文大小：1244 K
• 卷排序：24

文摘

We present an overview of the Centers for Quantitative Imaging Excellence (CQIE) program, which was initiated in 2010 to establish a resource of clinical trial-ready sites within the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Cancer Centers (NCI-CCs) network. The intent was to enable imaging centers in the NCI-CCs network capable of conducting treatment trials with advanced quantitative imaging end points. We describe the motivations for establishing the CQIE, the process used to initiate the network, the methods of site qualification for positron emission tomography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, and the results of the evaluations over the subsequent 3 years.