Quality Control in PACS: Getting to the Next Level, Nov. 29, 8:30-10:00

TriMed Staff | | Health Imaging | Enterprise Imaging
An expert panel delves into key quality control issues, including the radiologist’s role in the image quality process, strategies for maintaining data integrity and methods for implementing a display quality program.

When: Tuesday, Nov. 29, 8:30-10:00
Where: S403A

Speaker information:

Kevin W. McEnery, MD, associate division head for informatics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
S. Jeff Shephard, MS, senior medical physicist, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
Ehsan Samei, PhD, chief, clinical imaging physics group, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

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