Optimizing Cone Beam CT Physics and QA Testing: Perspectives on Imaging Equipment Calibration

Date Recorded: October 27, 2022

Because Cone Beam CT imaging systems are not regulated directly in most states, physics testing and QA protocols are usually directed by the manufacturers. Unfortunately, this has led to some inconsistencies in how performance assessments are implemented for Cone Beam CT providers, in contrast to traditional advanced diagnostic imaging (ADI) modalities such as CT, Nuclear Medicine, and MRI. In this session, some of the leading physicists in the Cone Beam CT field, who are members of RadSite Cone Beam CT Standards Committee, will provide their insights on some of the opportunities to standardize physics and QA equipment testing. This includes an overview of RadSite’s Dental and Medical Cone Beam CT ADI Standards, version 1.2.

Moderator: Phil Patton, PhD, RadSite Chief Physicist Officer; LBT Diagnostic Radiation Physics Consulting, President & COO

Presenters:

• Mason Anders, PhD, Dallas Field Office Director and Medical Physicist, West Physics
• Joseph Mahoney, MS, DABR, Medical Physicist, Grove Physics
• Dimitris Mihailidis, PhD., FACMP, FAAPM, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, and AAPM Task Group 261 Chair