NCCPM is part of the EUTEMPE-NET consortium. The EUTEMPE-NET project was formed to provide high level training in diagnostic and interventional radiology to reach EQF level 8. A European network of partners was brought together in an FP7 EC project to ensure sufficient expertise in all fields of study and to create a harmonized programme of courses. The project has modules covering the diverse areas including professional skills (e.g. leadership, communication), dosimetry, imaging technologies and image quality. The target groups for this project are medical physicists in hospitals, medical devices industry and in regulatory authorities. A blended learning process is used, where learning is undertaken using a mixture of e-learning and face-to-face training.
NCCPM run module 7: Optimising the performance of x-ray imaging units
Aim: This module is split into two parts. They aim to help the future MPE (Diagnostic Radiology) acquire the knowledge, skills and competences necessary to:
7A. The course will cover the measurement of image quality using standard test measurements and more advanced quantitative measurements such as detective quantum efficiency (DQE). The challenge of translating the industry IEC standard into a practical measurement undertaken in a clinical environment will be covered. The course will show how these measurements relate to the type of detector and the final clinical image quality. Groups wishing to implement these techniques into a quality control process will learn of its practical application. These quantitative measurements
will be used to examine the image quality of clinical images and to show how to simulate clinical images as part of an optimisation project.
7B. This course covers how to undertake optimisation of planar imaging systems in general radiographic and mammographic systems. The optimisation techniques discussed will include standard test object measurements of image quality and advanced quantitative measurement. Methods such as observer studies using simulated and real clinical images are described. Participants will produce their own optimisation study plan.
For more details of the content and dates of these module, click on: http://eutempe-net.eu/
