To ensure diagnostic confidence on softcopy medical viewing systems, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Task Group 18 has laid down quality standards to practicing medical physicists, engineers, researchers and radiologists.

　　These standards outline acceptance testing, which checks whether the display solution meets the requirements, as well as quality control, which specifies periodic check-ups to see if the system maintains its constancy.

　　To assist administrators in their efforts to make display systems comply with the AAPM TG18 standard, Barco has developed a plug-in to be incorporated into its MediCal QA software. In this way, these additional tasks can be performed user-friendly and almost intervention-free, thereby drastically reducing system administrator's workload and the total life cycle cost of softcopy display systems.

　　功能

　　User-friendly interface

　　Complies with international acceptance testing and quality control standards for softcopy imaging

　　Extends MediCal QA softcopy management functionality with automated plug-in wizard for all tests imposed by AAPM TG18

　　Stores results for future review and update

　　Performs visual check-up with test patterns included

　　Plug-in available for MediCal Pro (client) and compatible with MediCal Administrator

　　Automated detailed PDF reports